The Windows version looks almost stable, but the GTK version fails in some cases.
That's why the classic wx debugger is still available if BX_DEBUGGER_GUI is set to 0.
- added function close_debug_dialog() to handle the simulation stop case in wx
- disable all the wx debugger related code if BX_DEBUGGER_GUI is set to 1
- added enhanced debugger specific init code similar to the code in sdl.cc
- include debugger related resources on Windows
- TODO: make the GTK / wxGTK case stable and remove the wx debugger
Bugfix: VMX: VmEntry should do TPR Virtualization (TPR Shadow + APIC Access Virtualization case is affected) and even could possibly cause TPR Threshold VMEXIT
Of course no true random numbers will be generated - use standard "C" rand() function as stub.
In future it will be possible to improve (using another random generator) or even use real rdrand/rdseed intrinsics
Minor speedup (of 1-2%) was observed due to new implementation
Remove obsolete dbg_take_irq function and dbg_force_interrupt function from CPU code, the functions were not working properly anyway
fixed enabling of ADX extensions in generic CPUID when enabled through .bochsrc
Small code cleanups on the way to implementation of APIC Registers Virtualization features disclosed in recent Intel SDM rev043
Bochs instruction emulation handlers won't refer to direct fields of instructions like MODRM.NNN or MODRM.RM anymore.
Use generic source/destination indications like SRC1, SRC2 and DST.
All handlers are modified to support new notation. In addition fetchDecode module was modified to assign sources to instructions properly.
Immediate benefits:
- Removal of several duplicated handlers (FMA3 duplicated with FMA4 is a trivial example)
- Simpler to understand fetch-decode code
Future benefits:
- Integration of disassembler into Bochs CPU module, ability to disasm bx_instruction_c instance (planned)
Huge patch. Almost all source files wre modified.
for CPU emulation performance reasons, the alignment check compilation
still can be enabled using configure option --enable-alignment-check.
There is no software in the world which enable #AC exception checking, this
x86 feature is completely legacy but its emulation support costs up to 3-5%
emulation speed.
The checking for #AC exception enable still will be done, if
CPL == 3, EFLAGS.AC = 1 and CR0.AM = 1
but the alignment check is not compiled in, the Bochs will PANIC with corresponding message.
You can press 'always continue' and ignore the PANIC, the simulation will continue as if alignment checking is not enabled.
