[stella] About Stella's debugger asm

[Stephen Anthony]

On May 1, 2008 02:32:31 pm Peter Froehlich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On May 1, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
> > It would be nice if DASM differentiated between hardcoded vs. user-
> > defined
> > equates.
>
> Since I am the DASM guy right now: What is a "hardcoded equate" in
> this context? For DASM all EQU directives are the same (at least as
> far as I know anyway, I have not worked on that section of the code
> yet).

I guess I mean all equates defined in VCS.H vs. those defined by the 
user.  When we break all this down, all that's happening is a mapping 
from address to string (and vice-versa).  In this case, it would be 
much easier for Stella if DASM produced that info in the .sym file.  

Perhaps each symbol output to the .sum file could contain its 'type' 
(ie, ROM, RAM, USER-DEFINED, HARDCODED, etc) by use of a set of numbers 
or something.  Granted, I can figure out much of this in Stella itself, 
but it would complicate and slow parsing of the file.  Since DASM must 
know this info internally anyway, it would be great if it was exported 
to the sym file.

Steve