winedbg again :-)

[Eric Pouech]

Max a écrit :
> 
> Some questions about winedbg usability !
> 
> 1) - Would it difficult to add an options (something like SHOWREGS=on/off)
>       that allows to have regs displayed automatically after a breakpoint AND
>       after a NEXTI command ? I find it painful to have to issue NEXTI and
>       then INFO REGS each time.... remember old good ms-dos debugger !!! :-)
the best way would be to enhance the display functions with somethings
like 
display $regs
not difficult

> 2)- What about the possibility to set off-code breakpoints ? It happens often
>      that I must set a break (in asm code) that is in a DLL which isn't
>      already loaded... That gives a BAD ADRESS, of course.
>      Borland debugger accepts the breakpoints and set it when the code
>      gets loaded. Now the only way is to set breaks in dll-loading routine,
>      wait up to the wanted dll gets loaded and then put the break... awful !
OTOH, it's also very awful to set a bp on memory which isn't mapped
yet... you
cannot write on it :-)
anyway, we could do something like we do now for bp setting (expressed
as a string) and automatically set the bp on DLL loading (if we can)
rather easy (just follow what's done for deferred bp)

> 3)- And now the difficultest ! After solving the point 2, what about a way to
>      store/retrieve breakpoints settings from disk ? Finding a bug in asm code
>      often requires days (hmmm... nights !) of stepping, and a way to save
>      breakpoints settings would spare tons of notes on paper :-)
that's a bit harder (especially, since we don't want the user to
interact), but basically it's just setting the parser to read from a
file stream instead of stdin

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