From: Rod Armstrong (rod_at_san-jose.tt.slb.com)
Date: Wed Apr 07 1999 - 19:31:05 BST
>How difficult would it be to add the capability to view memory blocks,
>formatted like hexl mode in Emacs(see bottom for example)?
>
>It is a feature that would be useful for debugging applications that use
>blocks of data that aren't necessariy character data, such as images,
>data streams, etc.
>
I agree that this would be a desirable feature. Wouldn't be hard to implement.
As a work around, there is an undocumented command already that does something
like this for the stack - in the typing line enter:
$debug:dumpstack > file-name
There is a mention of $debug in the Help -> miscellaneous-> assembler
text. One can "type $debug:?" to get the commands.
In the old 2.55 version, I made this accessible for any address via a
"0x" command. I didn't port that to version 3 because I thought it would
be better to do it properly as an object in the data window, rather
than a typing line command
An partial example from ups is
f6c8+74 f5e8-6c effff654 | 0| | 0| |????|
f6c8+70 f5e8-70 effff658 | 0| | 0| |????|
f6c8+6c f5e8-74 effff65c | 0| | 0| |????|
main:res effff660 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:driver_flags effff664 |ef7f91b8| | -276852296| |????|
main:xp effff668 |ef594f10| | -279359728| |?OY?|
main:want_outwin effff66c | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_save_sigs effff670 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:use_full_path effff674 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_auto_start effff678 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_save_config effff67c | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_load_config effff680 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_startup_message effff684 |ef58e93c| | -279385796| |<?X?|
main:seen_startup_message_flag effff688 |ef7dba38| | -276973000| |8?}?|
main:done_cc_arg effff68c | 0| | 0| |????|
main:user_gave_core effff690 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:want_window effff694 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:replay effff698 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:got_source_path effff69c | 0| | 0| |????|
main:i effff6a0 |effff6c8| | -268437816| |????|
main:cs effff6a4 | 26588| | 157064| |?e??|
main:save_arg effff6a8 | 3| | 3| |????|
main:args effff6ac |effff72c| | -268437716| |,???|
main:usage_eb effff6b0 | 4| | 4| |????|
main:state_dir effff6b4 |effff738| | -268437704| |8???|
main:default_corename effff6b8 | 5| | 5| |????|
main:default_source_path effff6bc |effff814| | -268437484| |????|
main:textname effff6c0 | 0| | 0| |????|
main:corename effff6c4 | 0| | 0| |????|
[f6c8 main:fp] effff6c8 | 148400| | 1344512| |????|
f6c8-04 effff6cc | 2| | 2| |????|
f6c8-08 effff6d0 |effff72c| | -268437716| |,???|
f6c8-0c effff6d4 |effff738| | -268437704| |8???|
f6c8-10 effff6d8 | 0| | 0| |????|
Russ Browne has mentioned possible ways of doing this. I don't have time
to work on ups at present, but may be able to do this after 3.34.
Rod
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