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Article #2968Software develpment tool
From: David P. Schaumann
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 23:06
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 23:06
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I have this idea for a software development tool, but I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of the Amiga. Basicly, this is the idea: given a program under development 'dev_prog', create a supervisor like program which would use the 68000's ability to single-step through a program, and watch for instructions which would cause a guru. Naturally, I realize that even if recognizing such a situation is relatively trivial, this supervisor program might degrade "dev_prog"'s performance 90% or more. So my question is this: given the knowledge of the next instruction to be executed, is it reasonably easy (say by executing no more than 50 ml instructions) to determine if this instruction would cause a guru? I think anyone who has used the Amiga as a development tool could see the advantage of such a program. Of course, to be completely safe, such a program would also have to enforce memory protection on 'dev_prog'. I await your reply at dave@cs.arizona.edu Dave Schaumann
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!dave From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Software develpment tool Keywords: save me from the guru Message-ID: <141@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 23:06:05 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 18