From 4f2ac1b76b04df503944e86c2e7f152c2ff53f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsc <devnull@localhost>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:48:19 +0000
Subject: Working on better handling of multithreading in general and core
 dumps in particular.  See notes:

new types: register is something that when dereferenced gives you
	the registers.  the Ureg is no longer mapped at 0.
	refconst is something that gives a constant when dereferenced.

new builtin register("AX") creates register values
new builtin refconst(0x123) creates refconst values

new builtin var("foo") is equivalent to the variable foo
	(it returns foo but can also be used as the lhs of an assignment).

new acid function getregs() returns a list of the current values of registers.
new acid function setregs() sets the current registers to those values.
	note that getregs and setregs operate on register locations, not the
		register values themselves.
new acid function resetregs() sets registers to register("AX"), etc.
new acid function clearregs() sets all registers to constant -1.
the default register settings are as in resetregs(), not small numbers.

new acid variables coretext, pids, systype, corefile, cmdline.

new behavior: local variable lookup, stk, etc., use the acid values of registers
	(*PC, *SP, and so on), so the thread support code can change the context
	completely.

unary + is applicable to more data types and prints more often.
---
 src/cmd/acid/Notes | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/cmd/acid/Notes')

diff --git a/src/cmd/acid/Notes b/src/cmd/acid/Notes
index 597bf58c..90cfc2a5 100644
--- a/src/cmd/acid/Notes
+++ b/src/cmd/acid/Notes
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ map() returns 5-tuples: (name, filename, base, end, offset)
 
 map() expects a 5-tuple too
 
+new acid maps() prints maps nicely.
+
 strace expects a list of register names and values like
 	{"PC", *PC, "SP", *SP}
 
@@ -41,6 +43,34 @@ new builtin deltextfile(file) removes a file from the set of open text files.
 
 both textfile and deltextfile update symbols.
 
+new types: register is something that when dereferenced gives you
+	the registers.  the Ureg is no longer mapped at 0.
+	refconst is something that gives a constant when dereferenced.
+
+new builtin register("AX") creates register values
+new builtin refconst(0x123) creates refconst values
+
+new builtin var("foo") is equivalent to the variable foo
+	(it returns foo but can also be used as the lhs of an assignment).
+
+new acid function getregs() returns a list of the current values of registers.
+new acid function setregs() sets the current registers to those values.
+	note that getregs and setregs operate on register locations, not the
+		register values themselves.  
+new acid function resetregs() sets registers to register("AX"), etc.
+new acid function clearregs() sets all registers to constant -1.
+
+the default register settings are as in resetregs(), not small numbers.
+the Ureg is not mapped at 0 anymore.
+
+new acid variables coretext, pids, systype, corefile, cmdline.
+
+new behavior: local variable lookup, stk, etc., use the acid values of registers
+	(*PC, *SP, and so on), so the thread support code can change the context
+	completely.
+
+unary + is applicable to more data types and prints more often.
+
 ====
 
 yet to be done:
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