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Disect - ⌐ DMA 1994-5 24.11.94
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V1.0: 13 Mar-Oct 94 At times, I thought I'd never get there...
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V1.1: 17.11.94-24.11.94 Well, from my rather affected memory:
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?!)
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