[OpenBIOS] PATCH: Implement Forth source debugger for OpenBIOS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Blue Swirl wrote:

> That's possible.
> 
> But I think the performance hit could be avoided almost entirely. Make
> non-debug and debug versions of "semis" and "docol". On startup
> construct the "words" table, while building select the non-debug
> versions, unless some magic diagnostic switch is on. "next" or
> "enterforth" may still need a test.
> 
> Maybe the switch to debug table could even happen during execution by
> user command.

Indeed. I had a similar inspiration earlier this evening, with the only 
problem being how to switch code into next() without causing a 
performance hit. However, I think I've just worked out a cute little 
hack that would solve this. I'm at a conference over the next few days, 
so it might not be until next week that I get a chance re-work the patch 
and resubmit.

In the meantime, I've looked again at the v2 patch I posted and I still 
can't work out why the debugging output by printk() doesn't appear on a 
VNC display for Qemu SPARC64, while it appears fine when Qemu SPARC64 is 
invoked in -nographic mode. Can anyone shed any light on this?


ATB,

Mark.

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