Homebrew commonly ships its unstripped ELF next to the EBOOT, which is already
how the symbol loader turns z_un_08841f98 into a function name. That same ELF
carries a DWARF .debug_line section, so the addresses can be mapped to source
files and lines too - and a backtrace stops being four hex numbers:
08841f98 move sp,fp mesh.zig:163
0883afa4 li v0,0x0 MenuState.zig:821
088260d8 andi at,v0,0xFFFF State.zig:40
0882a27c andi at,v0,0xFFFF engine.zig:468
Surfaced in three places: per frame in hle.backtrace, in the "hit" object that
cpu.breakpoint.hit and cpu.stepping share, and appended to the disassembly
window's status bar. The breakpoint case keys on the pc rather than the address,
since for a memory breakpoint the useful source location is the instruction that
did the access, not the data it touched.
Storage is a plain sorted table of absolute addresses per module. SymbolMap
keeps module-relative addresses because its .ppsym files are meant to be
reloaded by a different game that pulls in the same module; none of this is ever
written anywhere - it's regenerated from the ELF each boot - so there'd be
nothing for relative addresses to buy. Each module owns its own rows and file
names outright and is keyed the way SymbolMap::UnloadModule is, so unloading one
module drops its lines and nobody else's.
The subtle part is end-of-sequence markers. Without them a lookup for an address
in a gap - a compilation unit built without debug info - confidently reports the
last line of an unrelated file. A prototype run over one test binary
mis-attributed 70 of its 349 functions that way, so sequence ends are recorded
as rows with line 0 and a lookup landing on one reports nothing instead.
DWARF 2 through 4 are decoded (psp-gcc emits 2, Zig 4). Version 5 re-encoded the
file table, so those units are skipped with a warning rather than mis-parsed -
nothing targeting the PSP produces it today.
Scope, since it's narrower than it sounds: PRX conversion strips every .debug
section. I checked all 437 pspautotests .prx and CrossCraft's own app.prx -
none have any. Of 24 installed homebrew EBOOTs, zero carry debug info; CrossCraft
only does because it ships app.elf separately. So this helps someone developing
homebrew, and does nothing at all for a commercial game.
Costs about 1.2 MB for a large Zig binary (98383 rows, 438 files) and nothing
for anything without debug info. Follows bAutoSaveLoadSymbols like the symbols
do.
pspautotests 314/314, UnitTest 55/55, CoreUWP builds.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
New events, all read-only (never mutate kernel state, no cleanup/sort calls
- see HLEKernelObjectSubscriber.cpp's header comment):
- hle.object.list: every live kernel object of every type at once (uid,
type, name, one-line quickInfo), with an optional 'type' filter. Uses
KernelObjectPool::IterateAll(), a new type-agnostic sibling of the
existing Iterate<T>().
- hle.eventflag.list/info, hle.mutex.list/info, hle.semaphore.list/info,
hle.msgpipe.list/info, hle.callback.list/info: per-type full detail
(all Native* status struct fields plus waiting-thread lists), reading
straight off the classes exposed in the previous commit.
Also adds JsonWriter::DictScope/ArrayScope (Common/Data/Format/JSONWriter.h)
- RAII push/pop for pushDict()/pushArray(), used throughout the new
handlers. A forgotten or early-returned pop() previously just produced
silently malformed JSON; with 11 new handlers each writing a handful of
nested arrays/dicts, that seemed worth fixing at the API level rather
than trusting every call site to pair things up by hand. Existing
handlers are untouched - this is purely additive.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
Lets a client query all log categories (Common/Log.h's Log enum) with their
current level/enabled state, and change a channel's level and/or enabled
state at runtime - same data LogConfigScreen already exposes in the UI, now
reachable from the debugger protocol. Levels are named strings (notice,
error, warning, info, debug, verbose) rather than the 1-6 numbers the
existing passive 'log' event uses (LogBroadcaster.cpp, left unchanged) -
clearer for a config-style API where you're not scanning a stream.
Registered as a new subscriber alongside the others in WebSocket.cpp, and
wired into all the build systems that need a new source file (CMake, the
Windows and UWP vcxprojs, Android.mk - libretro's Makefile.common doesn't
build any WebSocket debugger files so needs no entry).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
Decoding a GE display list previously meant memory.read-ing the raw bytes
and hand-decoding each 32-bit command word against GPU/ge_constants.h's
GECommand enum - which is exactly what it took to find this session's
actual headline VSH boot finding (a display list that clears the screen
once, sets up per-icon render state 6 times, and never issues a single
further draw call - see docs/VSHBootInvestigation.md Attempt 22). That
manual process is real, repeatable, and error-prone by hand; PPSSPP
already has a proper GE disassembler (GPU/GeDisasm.cpp's
GeDisassembleOp(), and GPUCommon::DisassembleOpRange() built on top of
it) used by the ImGui/Windows GE debugger UI - it just wasn't reachable
from the WebSocket API.
New Core/Debugger/WebSocket/GPUDisasmSubscriber.cpp exposes
gpu->DisassembleOpRange() as gpu.displaylist.disasm, mirroring
memory.disasm's own parameter conventions (address+count or
address+end, capped at 10000 commands) and compact mode (one string per
command, "AAAAAAAA desc", instead of the full {address,cmd,op,desc}
object) added in the previous commit. GE command words live in normal
guest RAM like CPU code, so - unlike gpu.buffer.* - this doesn't require
the CPU/GPU to be paused first, matching memory.disasm's own live-read
behavior.
Added to all 6 build systems that compile the WebSocket debugger
(CMakeLists.txt, Core.vcxproj(.filters), UWP's CoreUWP.vcxproj(.filters),
android/jni/Android.mk - libretro doesn't build any Debugger/WebSocket
files at all, so nothing to add there).
Verified live via PPSSPPHeadless + wsdbg against a real demo ELF: both
compact and full-JSON modes correctly decode real GE command words (NOP/
NOP_FF) with no errors. UnitTest.exe all: 49/49 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
Adds Core/MIPS/InterpreterDispatch.cpp, the checked-in output of
GenerateInterpreterDispatch() (see the previous commit), and hooks it
into RunUntilFast() in MIPSTables.cpp in place of the old
MIPSGetInstruction()-based table walk + indirect call through
instr->interpret. The checked-with-breakpoints/memchecks path
(RunUntilWithChecks) is untouched for now, since it inspects
MIPSInstruction flags directly and correctness there matters most.
Also fixes a real crash in headless.cpp found while testing this:
cmdLineOptions.gpuBackend.value() would throw when unset (e.g. with
--graphics=software), now uses value_or().
Verified with `test.py -g --cpu=interpreter --graphics=software`:
313/314 pass; the one failure (cpu/fpu/fpu) is a pre-existing
interpreter-vs-JIT denormal (flush-to-zero) difference, confirmed to
fail identically with the old table-walking dispatch, so unrelated to
this change.
Adds Tools/update-dispatcher.py to regenerate InterpreterDispatch.cpp
from a built PPSSPPHeadless binary whenever the MIPSTables.cpp tables
change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019SKhm9wKEQzRUsx9mTrrtQ
Some games survive with a loaded sceAtrac, and start talking to
sceAudioCodec instead, the underlying library, though unsuccessfully
since it's not properly implemented yet.
