With a few days off for the holidays, I finally had some time to get the debugger working again. It now supports the common DWARF debugging standard segment that is contained in the ELF file written by LLVM-MC and LLD.
I originally coded it for the simple assembler that I wrote for the CPU, but the system quickly outgrew that and I decided to implement a "real" assembler. I ended up going with LLVM-MC over a separate assembler like VASM so I could more easily implement higher-level languages at some point. That was painfully complex, but it is now working, at least for a small subset of the Ember instruction set.
I can now set breakpoints, step through the code in the emulator, as well as view and edit registers and memory, directly in the emulator window.
Next, I need to finish up the instruction set ISA, add all the remaining instructions to the LLVM TableGen scripts, then update the emulator for the new instructions and I should be able to get working on some firmware/OS code.
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