* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Disect - © DMA 1994-5 24.11.94 ===================== ======== V1.0: 13 Mar-Oct 94 At times, I thought I'd never get there... ------------------- V1.1: 17.11.94-24.11.94 Well, from my rather affected memory: ----------------------- 1) No longer crashes if disassembly window at hardware registers 2) No longer need to define hundreds of copper addresses one at a time (!) 3) DataStrings allow 'X' in base string 4) Will load executables containing LINE debug/HCLN hunks V1.2: 25.11.94-29.11.94 Got fed up playing Frontier, so... ----------------------- 1) Gave screen a proper menu bar, and menus. ASL menus OK now. 2) Screen is now WB2+, ASL requester is (at last) blue! 3) Disect aware of 'gadtools.library' base address 4) Main window is now WFLG_BACKDROP, so now cannot lose ASL requester window behind it! I remember the day I discovered that one... 5) Key '+' swaps both disassembly windows 6) Symbol Window: LMB on a selected symbol, moves (upper) disassembly window to address of (program) symbol 7) Up & Down arrow gadgets in disassembly windows V1.3: 30.11.94-7.12.94 ---------------------- 1) A bug which made Process crash/caused system corruption on Process termination creeped into V1.1. Dead now... 2) INCBIN Request. Thanks to Mark M for that idea 3) Symbol Window: if press a letter key (with/without) SHIFT key, or '.' key, and if symbols are sorted alphabetically, now moves window to first symbol which begins with that character 4) Improved algorithms for ensuring disassembly windows align themselves to defined program addresses 5) Improved handling of global/local program symbol definition and reference 6) Added an 'about' message 7) When define global program symbol, opens request if causes local program symbols to be corrupted 8) RMB on a local in program symbol area moves disassembly window the local's global symbol V1.4: 7.12.94-11.12.94 ---------------------- 1) When disassemble to file, will concatenate successive DC.X statements to produce (much fewer) lines of source 2) RMB on instruction mnemonic moves PC to instruction 3) Can display addresses normally, or as hunk start offsets 4) Allows hunk offsets in expressions: "[0:64]" 5) Shift key WILL move memory window fast 6) Letters in hex now follow selected case 7) Up/down arrow gadgets in windows repeat if held down 8) Alarm sound when finds search data V1.5: 18.12.94 -------------- 1) RMB on displacement (eg: 'dd(Ax)') moves disass window to EA 2) WB requesters if cannot get resources V1.6: 9.1.95-01.02.95 --------------------- 1) It sometimes missed arrow gadget messages, only responding to them when another IDCMP message occurred which created a signal bit to the message port. This happened if LMB > 4 times quickly on arrow gadgets 2) System DataStrings: now contain 'X' for address pointers, and is now aware of address pointers which point to other system structures 3) System DataStrings: automatic line commenting, and automatic program symbol name definition 4) Allows definition of user address same as previous defined 5) Allows a base offset address to be defined 6) LMB on SEA/DEA text to lock register zoom 7) Auto blank lines preference 8) SS 'Prev' gadget allows offsets from locals if same global 9) Dummy symbol selections can be used as line comment texts 10) Symbol Window now contains a scroller gadget 11) Disect aware of 'mathffp.library' base address 12) Added 'PROCP' reserved symbol name 13) Added Process Grabber, but only tested on A500+ so far 14) Request windows which take an address range: can enter '=', '+X', and ',X' into end address string gadgets 15) Was unable to read any DSCT data file if the file contained no user address structures 16) Could not detect characters between "9" and "A" as invalid in hex numbers input by user 17) Added LMB function in Display Breakpoints request window 18) RMB in memory dump will define base offset address 19) No longer scans executable files to determine project memory sizes, now uses seg list (the things you learn once you get the RKMs...) 20) Data areas defined using system DataStrings now get DF'd as macros 21) During DF, if a program symbol name length exceeds one tab size, then the remainder of the source line will be output using a new line 22) Increased executable file hunk limit V1.7: 2.2.95-20.3.95 -------------------- 1) When RMB on program address or displacement, right ALT will move memory window to the address 2) Memory dump now contains a +/- cycle gadget 3) When filling memory: eg, if filling LONGs, but address range was 31 bytes, Disect would actually write 32 bytes (ie: 8 complete LONGs); also changed FORBID/CLEAR CACHE/PERMIT method (once per byte, instead of once per address range, since very large fills may FORBID for too long); also did this for copy memory 4) Search memory also gives alarm sound when search ends (data not found); source/ASCII searches now match any number of spaces or tabs 5) During DF, if a program address was automatically replaced with a (program) symbol (creating an instruction address), the original address would still be logged as an missing undefined-reference address; by adding a single instruction, this was solved 6) Added Process Menu 'Breakpoint At Active Process PC' function, but I think the world may not like this too much... 7) A new, improved Symbol Selection window... 8) Cute little arrow gadgets in main window to move disassembly windows left and right 9) Disect refused to disassemble movec control registers (unless the upper 4 bits of the opcode extension word were 0) 10) Disect hung when I ungrabbed what I had previously considered to be a safe Process to do this to... it was a very well hidden bug (since I did not realise that by sending a Signal to a Wait()ing Process, a task- switch might/will occur) 11) Added Process memory allocations monitor, & unfreed memory list when Process terminates 12) History buffer no longer limited to only four entries (!) 13) ASL window size and coords now saved as Preferences 14) Can now extract symbols from .gs files 15) Binary files: allows load to a preferred address 16) Disect auto-replaces CUSTOM/CIA addresses with symbols 17) Another bug: if an address register contained a library base address, and was displayed in register window as, eg: 'BASEDOS', then the content of the address would not be displayed 18) Mark M pointed out to me that 'CUSTOM' is defined in 'intuition/preferences.i', but not as $DFF000, so had to rename the same symbol (held within Disect executable file) to 'CUSTOM_BASE' 19) Allows '.x' in expressions for FFP values 20) Fill & Copy Memory: no longer FORBID/CLEAR CACHE/PERMIT 21) LMB on address digits in disass window: if right ALT pressed moves memory window to address (instead of defining a breakpoint) 22) Had a bit of screen corruption (register/memory window) if defined a base offset which caused large offsets to be displayed (eg: '[-$12345678]', which would not fit into 10-chars available for it) 23) Now allows definition of key macros... it's simple, but highly effective, and I'll sleep with a grin on my face tonight! (I will get around to allowing macros to be loaded/saved... eventually) 24) Previously, could not replace references to seglists with program symbols (eg: 'move.l main-4,a0'), so Disect will now do this automatically 25) Grabbing a Process would crash if it's pr_WindowPtr was -1 26) Now replaces 'jsr dd(a6)' with relevant '_LVO' symbols for following libraries: Exec, DOS, Gfx, Int, ASL, GadTools, MathFFP 27) Can no longer define breakpoints outside project memory range 28) MultiBin files load and save, and program 'AllocMultiBin' 29) Request window gadgets now display '_' characters beneath letters equivalent to keyboard controls 30) Now allows definition of a Process's variables memory area (either within Process, or allocated memory), and can define user constant symbols as displacements within this memory (eg: dd(ax)), so that Disect can auto-replace any displacements with relevant constant symbol 31) Disect will now display content of addresses (eg: register window) as program symbols (no longer displays only an address as a program symbol) 32) Found a very obscure bug: if a 'JSR _LVOAllocMem' was ('E') executed (buffered), and if this memory was not freed then when Process terminated, unfreed memory was not listed as 'SELF' allocated 33) Now allows binary files to be inserted into loaded project 34) With much DSCT data (especially on a 500+!), things tended to get slow, so added something to speed things up 35) Auto Trace mode!! 36) Hardware monitor (not finished?!) * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *