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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

606.0. "<LoadWB -Debug> and then...???" by LAUSAN::BLANC (Phil Lausanne-CH 21-JUL-1987 15:36) Tue Jul 21 1987 15:13

    Hi,
    Having a terminal on the serial port (correctly setted-up) ,you
    can have some type of debugging your Amiga (as I understand)
    either after GURU has been here (it then dumps out kernel stack,user
    stack) or with the CLI command LoadWB -Debug (you then get a special
    menu on the workbench menus).
    You get a type of prompt on the serial port wich look like this
    ROM WACK
    It seems then you can give some commands (ODT style)
    Can anybody point or give me the maximum infos ,commands,news etc...
    for this item ?
    Thanks 	Phil

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606.1 Not much to document TLE::RMEYERS Randy Meyers Tue Jul 21 1987 18:25 20

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606.1	Not much to document	TLE::RMEYERS	Randy Meyers	`Tue Jul 21 1987 18:25`	20
	Re: .0 ROM Wack requires a 9600 baud terminal hooked up to the serial port. One of the ways of getting into Wack is to hit the RIGHT mouse button when a GURU message is flashed up onto the screen. (Remember the Guru message says to hit the left mouse button to reboot, and says nothing about the right? Now you know why.) ROM Wack is documented towards the end of the Exec manual. Try looking for Wack or debugging in the index. There is only a two of three page description of the debugger, but then it is so limited, it only requires two of three pages of descriptions. I would recommend that you NOT bother to read up on it, however. It really is just a hex debugger: no instruction decode, no breakpoints, nothing. Its just the thing for the author of the Exec to run to look at the task control block of the task that crashed the machine, but it isn't that useful for anyone else. If you need a debugger, get Metascope.

Re: .0

ROM Wack requires a 9600 baud terminal hooked up to the serial port.
One of the ways of getting into Wack is to hit the RIGHT mouse button
when a GURU message is flashed up onto the screen.  (Remember the Guru
message says to hit the left mouse button to reboot, and says nothing
about the right?  Now you know why.)

ROM Wack is documented towards the end of the Exec manual.  Try looking
for Wack or debugging in the index.  There is only a two of three page
description of the debugger, but then it is so limited, it only requires
two of three pages of descriptions.

I would recommend that you NOT bother to read up on it, however.  It really
is just a hex debugger: no instruction decode, no breakpoints, nothing.
Its just the thing for the author of the Exec to run to look at the
task control block of the task that crashed the machine, but it isn't
that useful for anyone else.

If you need a debugger, get Metascope.