[stella] About Stella's debugger asm

Manuel Rotschkar cybergoth at arcor.de
Thu May 1 12:15:13 CDT 2008


Hi there!

> 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.

Upon second thought about all of this, I think DASM neither does know  
these things, nor should it know them. Basically it's on Stellas side to  
know all these things, like where is RAM/ROM and what registers does the  
VCS have.

For DASM probably everything is just a big address/name map, it doesn't  
know anything about the target machine. Even vcs.h is in the end just a  
user defined file. If I wanted to I could rename WSYNC and VSYNC into Hans  
and Franz...

Greetings,
Manuel



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