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Create debugger #7

Open redxdev opened 10 years ago

redxdev commented 10 years ago

A new project to house the SVM debugger should be created, named shodb.

It will work similarly to shogun, but with a few extras. It will use ncurses for UI (and provide the necessary replacements for the SVM console library). A signal handler will be registered, and when either a flag is passed on the command line or ctrl+c is pressed the virtual machine will halt execution. If the DBRK opcode is run, it will also break into the debugger.

A command line will appear and ask for a command. The following commands should be implemented (for now):

step [count=1]

Run count operations before returning control to the debugger

state

Pulls up the stack and heap on screen

continue

Continues execution in the virtual machine

break

Place a breakpoint at address

break-line

Place a breakpoint at all operations that have debugging information at line.

unbreak

Removes breakpoint at address

unbreak-line

Removes all breakpoints at line

redxdev commented 10 years ago

A "step" function needs to be added to Shogun::VirtualMachine