[stella] About Stella's debugger asm

[Stephen Anthony]

On May 1, 2008 02:45:13 pm Manuel Rotschkar wrote:
> 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...

Hmm, maybe you're right.  If DASM doesn't currently have any concept of 
this, then I don't suggest going through the work of adding it.  I can 
take a care of it here (as much as is possible, anyway).

Steve