Breakpoints: SWI osBreak, and s refuses a read only bank
A breakpoint that shows every register as the program had them, waits for a key, and carries on. NOTHING IS OVERWRITTEN, and that is the design rather than a shortcut. A breakpoint poked into a running program has to replace an instruction, and putting that instruction back in order to continue is the same act as disarming the breakpoint; firing a second time would mean stepping over the restored instruction and putting the breakpoint back behind it, and this machine cannot step a single instruction. SWI is two bytes, dispatches through a vector, and its frame already holds the address after it, so RETI resumes at the next instruction with nothing to restore and nothing to re-arm. It fires every time it is reached. The price is that a breakpoint is part of the program: a build with them in has different addresses from a build without. That is the bargain every machine with a break instruction makes. Every value shown comes out of the frame rather than the registers, because by the time the handler runs the registers are the handler's. Apps/Break.asm stops twice so that the second stop is checked as well as the first. Also here, found by the test that came with it: the monitor's s wrote into whichever bank was selected, and bank 2 is the controller's own table, published read only. Writing to it was refused, and a refusal nobody catches stops the machine - so selecting the bank table to look at it and then typing s killed the session. bankPresent now keeps the whole flags byte and s declines. The recorded output of cosmosMonitor had contained that crash, having been blessed without being read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ cosmosRun | CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm | run | cosmosRun
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# The last part is what the mode is FOR: a program typed in as bytes, run with g, and the
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# prompt that comes back is the monitor's own. A program giving the machine back lands where
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# it was started from, so looking at something and running it do not interrupt each other.
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#
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# It also asks to write into bank 2, the controller's own table, which is published read
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# only. That used to stop the machine, and the recorded output of this test contained the
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# crash without anybody noticing, which is what blessing a result without reading it buys.
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cosmosMonitor | CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm | run | cosmosMonitor.in | - | disks/cosmos.img
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# The original hello.asm, brought over as an application. It is not much of a program,
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# but it is the one that talks to the hardware directly: it writes to port 0x00 instead
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@@ -270,6 +274,13 @@ cosmosFiles | CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm | run | cosmosFil
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# name, and with several words, since what arrives is the rest of the line rather than a
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# list and it is the program's business what to make of it.
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cosmosSay | CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm | run | cosmosSay.in | - | disks/cosmos.img
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# A program stopping itself to be looked at. Two breakpoints, so what is checked is not only
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# that one fires but that the SECOND one does - which is the whole difference between this
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# design and one that overwrites an instruction, since an overwritten instruction has to be
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# put back to continue and putting it back is the same act as disarming the breakpoint.
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# Every value shown comes out of the interrupt frame rather than the registers, because by
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# the time the handler runs the registers are the handler's.
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cosmosBreak | CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm | run | cosmosBreak.in | - | disks/cosmos.img
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# The editor, which is the first program on this machine that makes a file a person typed:
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# every byte on every other image here was put there by the host tool. It is run twice in
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# one session, and that is the test rather than a flourish - the second run reads back what
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@@ -291,6 +302,7 @@ app-Life | CosmOS/Apps/Life.asm | assemble | -
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app-Snake | CosmOS/Apps/Snake.asm | assemble | - | -
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app-Keys | CosmOS/Apps/Keys.asm | assemble | - | -
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app-Say | CosmOS/Apps/Say.asm | assemble | - | -
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app-Break | CosmOS/Apps/Break.asm | assemble | - | -
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app-Edit | CosmOS/Apps/Edit.asm | assemble | - | -
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app-Files | CosmOS/Apps/Files.asm | assemble | - | -
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