[Vm-dev] Re: slang printf equivalent

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Ben,

    you'll see a lot of print methods in StackInterpreter that dump stack frames etc.  these are built above some simple string and number of output routines, like print: & printNum: that you can use in simulated code and print to stdout in the real VM also.

For debug logging during simulation the interpreter simulators respond to #transcript by answering the output window in the VM simulation. There's a menu pick in the bottom right inspector to toggle the transcript between the small one in the VM simulation and the system's Transcript.

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> On Feb 21, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Alain Rastoul <alf.mmm.cat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 21/02/2016 14:34, Ben Coman wrote:
>> 
>> The most promising I found so far is...
>>      self printStringOf: 'BLAH3' ; flush.
>> but nothing show up on the bash console that started the VM.
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On a standard linux console, printf should output to console (I just verified now) .
> 
> What kind of console ?
> xen console for rump vm (on netbsd?) ?
> oh my ! great
> :)
> 
> if so, it depends of the kind of virtualization you choosed :
> hw, I guess depends of bios and  drivers (bochs/qemu should go out to qemu drivers/console?)
> pv there is a special hypercall api in mini-os  to output to host domain console (don't remember exactly, may be search for printk in Mini-os/xen headers, I'll digg into and post you what I found soon).
> 
> (nb: If you are at that point I am *very* interested, I struggled a lot to link a hacked vm with netbsd libs .. I am bad at autoconf, cmake and co. currently in my standby list, I will resume )
> 
> HTH
> 
> regards
> 
> Alain
> 
>