Hi there,
I'm looking for a low-level debugger for Palm OS. By this I mean a debugger
that doesn't know or care about any development environments or source code,
would work in isolation from any development environments or other software,
and would deal strictly in 68000 instructions, registers, and hex addresses.
I.e., something that would allow me to debug code for which I have no source or
which was developed in a completely alien development environment. In fact, I
need something that will not only make no assumptions about sources or
development environments when debugging a single app, but which won't even care
whether I'm tracing an app, a library, or a piece of Palm OS itself. Something
that will just keep single-stepping the 68000 no matter what apps, libraries,
or drivers the control flows through.
Since I need a debugger that works in isolation from any development
environment or other software, neither the CodeWarrior debugger (which is tied
to CodeWarrior) nor gdb (which is tied to gcc) suits this task. I have heard
about something called Palm Debugger, which is supposedly very low-level. I
wonder, would it give me what I need? Is it strictly low-level and does it work
in isolation from any development environment or other software? If so, where I
can get it and where can I read more about it?
I have been told that Palm Debugger is Mac only, right? Given how specialized
my task is, I realize that expecting a choice of platforms would probably be
asking for too much, so at this point I'm willing to use a debugger for any
platform, as long as it works in isolation from any development environments or
other software. I myself use UNIX and that's my first-choice platform. If
anyone knows of a low-level debugger of the type I'm asking about for UNIX, I
would greatly appreciate any leads. However, there are Windows machines all
around me and I'll try to scavenge up a Mac, so Windows and Mac are my second
and third choices for the platform, respectively.
TIA for any help.
Michael Sokolov
