Looking for Help with HBDB

[Christoph Otto]

Being soh_cah_toa's mentor and the guilty party in the merge, I'll be
looking into this after the PDS today.

Christoph

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:17 -0700, "Jonathan Duke Leto"
<jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Just to clarify, Kevin meant "since the merge of master into this
> branch" which was:
>
> 2a8794f Merge branch 'master' into soh-cah-toa/hbdb Christoph Otto  4
> weeks ago Mon Jul 4 10:46:17 2011
>
> If someone could help figure out why that merge borked hbdb, that
> would be awesomely helpful.
>
> Duke
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Kevin Polulak
> <kpolulak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I realize that most of us Parrot developers are just about always
> > knee deep in 1's and 0's but if you think you can spend some time to
> > help a struggling GSoC student work on his debugger, I would really
> > appreciate it. The adventures of HBDB has reached a bit of a
> > stalemate. The clock is ticking and I'm really starting to feel the
> > pressure since my debugger still doesn't really do anything useful.
> >
> > If you haven't already, please read my latest blog post. It
> > describes most of the problems I'm facing. My biggest problem right
> > now is basic execution commands like 'run' and 'step'. They work by
> > manipulating a few status bits in a global bitmask and then the
> > runcore checks the bitmask to decide how and if execution should
> > resume. The 'run' command works just fine but the 'step' command has
> > just been completely out of control. I tried creating a special
> > HBDB_STEP flag which works but apparently there are several
> > instructions that are executed before the first line in the :main
> > function so you must 'step' 4-5 times before an actual opcode is
> > reached. I've also considered taking the traditional route by simply
> > placing a temporary breakpoint at the next instruction but if you've
> > been reading any of my blog posts, you'll know that breakpoints have
> > been a complete nightmare. Besides that, getting the next pc value
> > is not that easy because it is not sequential; if pc is 41, pc++ is
> > not guaranteed to be 42.
> >
> > Should any of you decide to help I suggest you look in the following
> > places on the soh-cah-toa/hbdb branch:
> >
> > src/hbdb.c : hbdb_cmd_step() : +724 src/runcore/cores.c :
> > runops_hbdb_core() : +799 src/hbdb.c : hbdb_check_breakpoint() :
> > +770 src/hbdb.c : hbdb_runloop() : +1105
> >
> > I'm also struggling with the 'quit' command. Ever since the merge
> > into master, it segfaults and crashes. If you want to take a crack
> > at it, look at:
> >
> > src/hbdb.c : hbdb_cmd_quit() : +676 src/hbdb.c : hbdb_start() :
> > +1139 src/hbdb.c : hbdb_runloop() : +1105
> >
> > I've been on my own here for a while so I would be very grateful if
> > some of you would be willing to give a helping hand.
> >
> > --
> > - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa)
> >
> >
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