On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:46:02PM -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
> I think it would be very helpful to write a bootloader
> and a debugger built in. I especially like Wouter's
> bootloader.
> 
> I can't write it, but it would be nice for it to be able to
> look at any register contents in any bank, change any
> register,  perhaps  do a pseudo-breakpoint in main
> code then spit out W, status register, and others.

It would be real costly in code space. I instrument my
application with the dumping of variables of interest.

> This is how I debugged my HD64180, Z80, I8051
> code before PICs came along.

I think another advance is the solid progress that
simulators have made. Lots of debugging can be done without
loading into a real chip at all.

BAJ
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