HRTmon

[Wepl]

I've made some changes on HRTmon and created a github repository. Download from
https://github.com/wepl/hrtmon/releases/tag/v2.38 or http://whdload.de/whdload/Tools/hrtmon238.lha

version 2.38 Feb 16 2021 (Wepl)

• added a gnu Makefile to build all components
• adapted C sources to build all using vbcc, the binaries became larger (assumed worse optimization compared to DICE) but I wanted to make them cross compile, no functional changes, should work as before, also no need to replace the binaries
• added functions printf and _VSNPrintF
• output of WHDLoad commands WLM and WI improved
• new command TT to display the exec tasks
• some dead code/data removed
• created public repository at https://github.com/wepl/hrtmon

[jotd]

way to make that gem eternal! thanks

[CFou!]

great

[daxb]

HRTmon rocks! Tanks for developing.

[kamelito]

https://lallafa.de/blog/2011/06/dice...isited-on-mac/

[phx]

Originally Posted by Wepl

• adapted C sources to build all using vbcc, the binaries became larger (assumed worse optimization compared to DICE)

More likely is some better optimization, which increases size because of function-inlining and loop-unrolling. I saw you used -O2 in the Makefile. If you want smaller binaries I would recommend -O1, which already does some good optimizations (but without global optimizer) and/or the -size option.

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by Wepl

I've made some changes on HRTmon and created a github repository. Download from
https://github.com/wepl/hrtmon/releases/tag/v2.38 or http://whdload.de/whdload/Tools/hrtmon238.lha

version 2.38 Feb 16 2021 (Wepl)

• added a gnu Makefile to build all components
• adapted C sources to build all using vbcc, the binaries became larger (assumed worse optimization compared to DICE) but I wanted to make them cross compile, no functional changes, should work as before, also no need to replace the binaries
• added functions printf and _VSNPrintF
• output of WHDLoad commands WLM and WI improved
• new command TT to display the exec tasks
• some dead code/data removed
• created public repository at https://github.com/wepl/hrtmon

Hi Bert,

Thanks for you great job.

What is the WLM & WI improvements?

[apex]

A stupid user guide how to use it as Action Replay replacement would be really nice. Including an example how to use the codes you can find in every old magazine.

[Wepl]

Originally Posted by phx

More likely is some better optimization, which increases size because of function-inlining and loop-unrolling. I saw you used -O2 in the Makefile. If you want smaller binaries I would recommend -O1, which already does some good optimizations (but without global optimizer) and/or the -size option.

the binaries become larger with O1:
-O1 -size -sc

 9964 18 Feb 22:44 HRTmon
17512 18 Feb 22:44 HRTmonPrefs

-O2 -size -sc

 9952 16 Feb 22:19 HRTmon
17508 16 Feb 22:19 HRTmonPrefs

But for me the size of the tools doesn't matter. Not worth to spend more time on it.

Originally Posted by CFOU!

What is the WLM & WI improvements?

only made the textual output a bit nicer

[daxb]

@apex:
Did you read this (german text)? Starting from "Multitasking-Killer": https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/GTT/ws/freezer
AR is very similar to HRTmon. If you want to use it with WHDLoad the first command you want to execute is WI to get the needed address space. If you access other addresses you will get an access fault error or something similar. You will notice it. Everything else is knowing the commands, how Amiga hardware works and assembler. However, if you know how AR works you should be able to use HRTmon too.

[phx]

Originally Posted by Wepl

the binaries become larger with O1:

Ah, I see. There is not much code to optimize anyway. Then it's probably mainly the different size of vbcc/DICE startup codes and clib-init. You could try to link with minstartup.o or even without startup code.

[apex]

Originally Posted by daxb

@apex:

Did you read this (german text)? Starting from "Multitasking-Killer": https://www.amigafuture.de/app.php/GTT/ws/freezer

AR is very similar to HRTmon. If you want to use it with WHDLoad the first command you want to execute is WI to get the needed address space. If you access other addresses you will get an access fault error or something similar. You will notice it. Everything else is knowing the commands, how Amiga hardware works and assembler. However, if you know how AR works you should be able to use HRTmon too.

I will check, thank you.

[daxb]

Originally Posted by apex

I will check, thank you.

Sorry, I had a quick search to check my memory and found this old thread: https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?threads/3506/
Read it and smile. Similar/same discussion we had with the link to AF.

[apex]

Lol, good to have the new search function.