There were three distinct mechanisms for signaling breakpoint changes in DolphinQt, and the wiring had room for improvement. The behavior of these signals has been consolidated into the new `Host::PPCBreakpointsChanged` signal, which can be emitted from anywhere in DolphinQt to properly update breakpoints everywhere in DolphinQt.
This improves a few things:
- For the `CodeViewWidget` and `MemoryViewWidget`, signals no longer need to propagate through the `CodeWidget` and `MemoryWidget` (respectively) to reach their destination (incoming or outgoing).
- For the `BreakpointWidget`, by self-triggering from its own signal, it no longer must manually call `Update()` after all of the emission sites.
- For the `BranchWatchDialog`, it now has one less thing it must go through the `CodeWidget` for, which is a plus.
Before:
1. In theory there could be multiple, but in practice they were (manually) cleared before creating one
2. (Some of) the conditions to clear one were either to reach it, to create a new one (due to the point above), or to step. This created weird behavior: let's say you Step Over a `bl` (thus creating a temporary breakpoint on `pc+4`), and you reached a regular breakpoint inside the `bl`. The temporary one would still be there: if you resumed, the emulation would still stop there, as a sort of Step Out. But, if before resuming, you made a Step, then it wouldn't do that.
3. The breakpoint widget had no idea concept of them, and will treat them as regular breakpoints. Also, they'll be shown only when the widget is updated in some other way, leading to more confusion.
4. Because only one breakpoint could exist per address, the creation of a temporary breakpoint on a top of a regular one would delete it and inherit its properties (e.g. being log-only). This could happen, for instance, if you Stepped Over a `bl` specifically, and pc+4 had a regular breakpoint.
Now there can only be one temporary breakpoint, which is automatically cleared whenever emulation is paused. So, removing some manual clearing from 1., and removing the weird behavior of 2. As it is stored in a separate variable, it won't be seen at all depending on the function used (fixing 3., and removing some checks in other places), and it won't replace a regular breakpoint, instead simply having priority (fixing 4.).
Change misleading names.
Fix function usage: Intepreter and Step Out will not check breakpoints in their own wrong way anymore (e.g. breaking on log-only breakpoints).
There were three distinct mechanisms for signaling symbol changes in DolphinQt: `Host::NotifyMapLoaded`, `MenuBar::NotifySymbolsUpdated`, and `CodeViewWidget::SymbolsChanged`. The behavior of these signals has been consolidated into the new `Host::PPCSymbolsUpdated` signal, which can be emitted from anywhere in DolphinQt to properly update symbols everywhere in DolphinQt.
Window icon was missing from QDialog lacking a parent.
Giving the QDialog a parent revealed I had failed to make it properly non-modal, necessitating further changes.
Settings save less often, now only upon destruction.
Construction of BranchWatchDialog is now deferred.
This avoids a pseudo infinite loop where CodeWidget::UpdateCallstack
would lock the CPU in order to read the call stack, causing the CPU to
call Host_UpdateDisasmDialog because it's transitioning from running to
pausing, causing Host::UpdateDisasmDialog to be emitted, causing
CodeWidget::Update to be called, once again causing
CodeWidget::UpdateCallstack to be called, repeating the cycle.
Dolphin didn't go completely unresponsive during this, because
Host_UpdateDisasmDialog schedules the emitting of Host::UpdateDisasmDialog
to happen on another thread without blocking, but it was stopping certain
operations like exiting emulation from working.
This fixes a problem I was having where using frame advance with the
debugger open would frequently cause panic alerts about invalid addresses
due to the CPU thread changing MSR.DR while the host thread was trying
to access memory.
To aid in tracking down all the places where we weren't properly locking
the CPU, I've created a new type (in Core.h) that you have to pass as a
reference or pointer to functions that require running as the CPU thread.
This affected the memory and registers widgets (and possibly others). I'm pretty sure it regressed in 5f629abd8b.
The SetCodeVisible line is a new fix, but the equivalent already existed in the memory widget.
Before, only the symbols box would update. However, if you edit the symbol of a function in the call stack (which seems like something that would happen reasonably often while debugging), the call stack would be out of date until it was updated by clicking on it. Callers and calls were more of an edge case; for them to be out of date, you would need to right-click on an instruction in a function other than the one containing the currently-selected instruction (though it would also affect recursive functions).
Add Diff button to CodeWidget
Add Code Diff Tool window for recording and differencing functions. Allows finding specific functions based on when they run.
SPDX standardizes how source code conveys its copyright and licensing
information. See https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/1-rationale/ . SPDX
tags are adopted in many large projects, including things like the Linux
kernel.
QStringLiterals generate a buffer so that during runtime there's very
little cost to constructing a QString. However, this also means that
duplicated strings cannot be optimized out into a single entry that gets
referenced everywhere, taking up space in the binary.
Rather than use QStringLiteral(""), we can just use QString{} (the
default constructor) to signify the empty string. This gets rid of an
unnecessary string buffer from being created, saving a tiny bit of
space.
While we're at it, we can just use the character overloads of particular
functions when they're available instead of using a QString overload.
The characters in this case are Latin-1 to begin with, so we can just
specify the characters as QLatin1Char instances to use those overloads.
These will automatically convert to QChar if needed, so this is safe.
Changed itemSelectionChanged and itemClicked signal to itemPressed in CodeWidget.
Holding mouse down and moving will only travel up/down the stack one time.
This fixes the common occurrence of unintentionally traveling deeper down the stack or higher up the callstack than intended.
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