Assembler debugging

[rjobling]

Assembler debugging

[BartmanAbyss]

I think that's an inherent limitation of inline assembly. Maybe it works better if you put your assembly code into a separate .s file? We haven't used much assembly here, so I can't really comment on that issue. All the single-stepping etc. is handled by GDB.

[rjobling]

I don't know anything about how GDB works other than that it's a whole lot nicer than nothing! Seems like it would be hard to get it stepping through the inline code but maybe there's some way to have it step through the a.mingw.s code?

[BartmanAbyss]

It seems GDB can single step assembly instructions. See here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/35652/debugging-inline-assembly
I‘ll see if I can implement something like this.

[rjobling]

That would be wonderful! Thank you.

[BartmanAbyss]

Hey, I just checked that. If you select Amiga: Set Force Disassembly in the command-palette to Forced, the extension always shows assembly and you can now use the debugger's step function to step single instructions.

[rjobling]

That sounds good but I don't think I can use that with the 1.0 release I have. I'm not sure how to install the latest if I just pull the master zip from github here?

[BartmanAbyss]

That‘s already in 1.0

[BartmanAbyss]

You may want to have a look at the latest preview build.

[rjobling]

I didn't realize I needed to run the debugger first to get that command to show in the palette. But yes, it's there in 1.0. Will check out the preview. Seems like lots of good progress!

[BartmanAbyss]

Yeah, that's a setting that only affects the current debug session.

[rjobling]

I've been using this for debugging with 1.1.0 and wanted to share that it has been working really well! Thank you.

Doing a reasonable amount of assembler debugging makes me wish there were more ways to view registers. Would it be possible to expand the register view so it'll show the decimal values alongside the hex. And could it also show the values for upper/lower words or all four bytes? Would be very helpful if that isn't too difficult to add.