Re: Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

2015-12-16 Thread Jerome H. Fine
Sorry for that BAD stuff in the Subject line - my e-mail provider stuffs that in much of the time and I forget to remove it when I reply. If anyone needs a clean copy, I can send it again! Jerome Fine

Re: [SPAM key] - Re: Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

2015-12-16 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Tapley, Mark wrote: On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: Note that for many CPUs, adding values (a push) results in the stack pointer becoming numerically smaller (unsigned of course). Internally, the code would handle the actual arithmetic. (Warning: assembly language noob

Re: Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

2015-12-16 Thread Tapley, Mark
On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > Note that for many CPUs, adding values (a push) results in the > stack pointer becoming numerically smaller (unsigned of course). > Internally, the code would handle the actual arithmetic. (Warning: assembly language noob talking, please disre

Advice and Suggestions for a Debug Feature

2015-12-16 Thread Jerome H. Fine
I have been investigating the possibility of adding an enhanced feature to a debug program. There does not seem to be anything specific about the concept, so it should be applicable to every current CPU in addition to most old CPUs. The current syntax for many debuggers uses the letter "S" along