[Coco] ZBUG

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 06 June 2017 00:34:52 Dave Philipsen wrote:

> This is just a personal opinion but I played around with the debugger
> built into EDTASM many years ago when I first acquired the program
> pak.  I've also played around with a few debuggers over the years. 
> And I've had some real head-scratchers at times too.  But for me, I
> always seem to get the problem figured out by writing a little custom
> debug code into my program.  A lot of times I'll use an assembler
> conditional or a flag in the program that turns on my debug mode.  I
> may write a little subroutine that, when called, does a dump of all of
> the registers and displays their contents or something like that.  It
> always seems  to be easier than trying to run a debugger.  And usually
> it's just something simple like the use of the wrong addressing mode
> or the stack is not restored correctly or something like that.

That particular function, which is handier than the lock on the outhouse 
door at a family reunion, is f$regsdump in os9/nitros9;
 pshs cc
 os9 F$regsdump
 puls cc
No effect on your running program, but you've got a full processor dump 
on screen.

> Dave
>
> > On Jun 4, 2017, at 10:34 PM, John Mark Mobley
> > <johnmarkmelanie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am using a cross asembler.
> > I want to debug my code in XRoar.  I am using Linux.
> >
> > I can run edtasm+ from a ROM cartridge, run zbug and load my code
> > from the cassette interface into RAM.
> >
> > I can run disk-edtasm and just load zbug.  And load my code from the
> > floppy interface so that it does not overwrite zbug.  How do I know
> > what address is safe?
> >
> > Are there other options.
> >
> > -John Mark Mobley
> >
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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