extending debugger to support coding

[xxxxx]

Hey guys,

I have recently resumed programming on the Amiga, using WinUAE as my main platform. Everything works well, but debugging is pretty slow for me, and i find that with a few extra features i would be much more efficient. I hope you have the time to polish this up a bit. The main features that i wish for are:

• page up/down in memory and disasm window
• memory window changes how many bytes per line based on window width
• single step through next copper instruction
• window showing main registers shouldn't show cop1/cop2 pointers, but the current copper ptr (and next instruction)
• single step to next blit start
• full dump of all writes to hardware registers (incl colors, bitplane pointers etc

there may be more ideas, but these would really help (sorted in order of how useful i think each is)

Cheers,
An old-school Amiga coder

[Toni Wilen]

I only use console debugger when doing simple compatibility testing, it was not meant for anything else.

GUI version is not done by me. I prefer simple console

You can set memwatch point to BLTSIZE to detect start of blits and "ot" is supposed to step to next copper command. (if it isn't broken)

"e" dumps custom registers, "ea" dumps all AGA color registers.

[xxxxx]

Yeah, I imagined that you may not be using the debugger much yourself :-)

Didn't now about 'e' for custom registers, I have only used 'c' - thanks. Also didn't know about singlestep copper (but it isn't quite as useful without the "show current copper" suggestion). I knew about the memory breakpoint on bltsize, but it's not as convenient - I'm lazy, you see :-)

I hope whoever wrote the debugger would read my suggestions. At least suggestions 1, 2 and 4 would be extremely useful.

And one more suggestion, now that I am already dreaming
• when right clicking in memory window, and it suggests a0-a7, suggest the current copper ptr

(sorry, I saw after posting that you have a WinUAE wishlist board instead of support - feel free to move this thread over)

[thor]

Originally Posted by xxxxx

I hope whoever wrote the debugger

That would be me I guess (that was ages ago)

would read my suggestions.

I did However, due to real life distractions I can't see me doing anything with it in a forseeable future, sorry.

• page up/down in memory and disasm window

Not really pagewise up/down but Alt+Arrow Left/Right moves 8 lines up/down instead of 1 when using Alt+Arrow Up/Down.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by xxxxx

Also didn't know about singlestep copper (but it isn't quite as useful without the "show current copper" suggestion)

o command = current copper pointer (o1 and o2 = cop1 and cop2)
Most commands are listed in help list (h)