Removing Records and Translation Units from the Debug Code — Handmade Hero — Episode Guide

1:05Recap where we left last time and set the stage for the day

2:54handmade_debug_interface.h: Throw all of the debug annotation code into this new header file

4:01handmade_debug.h: Remove debug_variable entirely and give its functionality to debug_event

6:15handmade_debug.cpp: Rename DEBUGVariableToText to DEBUGEventToText

6:30handmade_debug.cpp: Introduce GetName

8:02handmade_debug.cpp: Replace Var->Event. with Event->

8:10"Everyone's happy and fine and dancing around..."^α

12:14handmade_debug_interface.h: Consider extending the concept of debug_event to support an additional Name and stop storing DebugRecordIndex

15:10handmade_debug.cpp: Comment out Var->Name in CollateCreateVariable and ZeroStruct *Var

15:45handmade_debug.cpp: Continue moving debug_variable functionality to debug_event

16:45Debugger: Notice that we don't currently support some of the DebugTypes

18:06handmade_debug.cpp: Assert that the Type != EndBlock

18:47handmade_debug_interface.h: Remove DebugType_FirstUIType from debug_type

19:19Run the game and see that it's all good

19:28handmade_debug_interface.h: Replace DebugRecordIndex with *Name and remove TranslationUnit from debug_event

22:23Pig Hat Time^β

22:31handmade_debug_interface.h: Stuff *FileName, *BlockName and LineNumber into debug_event and remove the concept of debug_record

28:25"Sometimes you're dumb"^γ

28:54handmade_debug.cpp: Change Source to Event

30:40handmade_debug.h and .cpp: Change ScopeToRecord to be a char and change how it is used in DebugType_EndBlock

32:58handmade_debug.cpp: Remove GetRecordFrom

33:26handmade_debug.h: Add *Event to debug_frame_region

34:27handmade_debug.cpp: Set ColorIndex to OpeningEvent->BlockName

35:15handmade_debug.cpp: Rename Source to Event

35:26handmade_debug.cpp: Change HotRecord to HotEvent

36:10handmade_debug.cpp: Remove the check on GlobalDebugTable

36:25Run the game and see that we're getting a lot closer

37:00build.bat: Remove TRANSLATION_UNIT_INDEX

37:22Run the game and check that it's still okay

37:25handmade_debug_interface.h: Remove debug_record and put GetController back into handmade_platform.h

38:08handmade_debug_interface.h: Move ThreadID and CoreIndex from threadid_coreindex to debug_event

39:07Run the game and see that all is working nicely

39:19handmade_debug_interface.h: Remove #define MAX_DEBUG_TRANSLATION_UNITS

39:50handmade_optimized.cpp: Remove DebugRecords_Optimized_Count

40:08handmade_debug.cpp: Remove DebugRecords nonsense

40:34handmade_debug_interface.h: Consider packing debug_event a little more

42:18handmade_debug.cpp: Add Var->BlockName back in to CollateCreateVariable

42:42Run the game and see "Hot Entity" again

43:03handmade_debug.cpp: Remove debug_event *Var

44:06handmade_debug.cpp: Do CollateAddVariableGroup rather than CollateCreateGroupedVariable

45:10handmade_debug.h: Remove DebugType_VarGroup from debug_type and call it OpenDataBlock everywhere

45:55Debugger: Investigate why BeginBlock is happening

48:42handmade_debug.cpp: Remove CollateCreateGroupedVariable

48:48handmade_debug.cpp: Assert that Link->Event->Type != DebugType_BeginBlock in CollateAddVariableToGroup

49:14Debugger: Inspect Stack and Depth

50:34handmade_debug.cpp: Try doing RestartCollation on every frame

52:02Run the game and find that it was an overwriting problem

52:50Q&A

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52:50Q&A

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52:50Q&A

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53:59hwd2ro Will you get back to game related coding next week?

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53:59hwd2ro Will you get back to game related coding next week?

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53:59hwd2ro Will you get back to game related coding next week?

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54:34fierydrake Do you ever wear the piggie hat at work?

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54:34fierydrake Do you ever wear the piggie hat at work?

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54:34fierydrake Do you ever wear the piggie hat at work?

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54:57elxenoaizd What would be the thing that would impress you on a programmer's resume?

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54:57elxenoaizd What would be the thing that would impress you on a programmer's resume?

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54:57elxenoaizd What would be the thing that would impress you on a programmer's resume?

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55:32thordurA Bit off-topic, but when will you do the ODE stuff?

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55:32thordurA Bit off-topic, but when will you do the ODE stuff?

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55:32thordurA Bit off-topic, but when will you do the ODE stuff?

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56:08Blackboard: Ordinary Differential Equation

59:22culver_fly I think he meant e^kt

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59:22culver_fly I think he meant e^kt

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59:22culver_fly I think he meant e^kt

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1:01:36xDeadBringerx I see a lot of branching in your code. Aren't you trashing the caches and the branch predictor?

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1:01:36xDeadBringerx I see a lot of branching in your code. Aren't you trashing the caches and the branch predictor?

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1:01:36xDeadBringerx I see a lot of branching in your code. Aren't you trashing the caches and the branch predictor?

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1:05:16Angrycrow Been soaking up so much of this stream as I catch up. I realized that I'm writing the usage code first nowadays. It's really streamlined my implementation brain. Just wanted to say thanks. Debate was great too

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1:05:16Angrycrow Been soaking up so much of this stream as I catch up. I realized that I'm writing the usage code first nowadays. It's really streamlined my implementation brain. Just wanted to say thanks. Debate was great too

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1:05:16Angrycrow Been soaking up so much of this stream as I catch up. I realized that I'm writing the usage code first nowadays. It's really streamlined my implementation brain. Just wanted to say thanks. Debate was great too

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1:05:35ChronalDragon Been learning about x86 assembly in one of my CS classes. Is there any way to force the compiler to use a register for a certain variable instead of a place on the stack?

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1:05:35ChronalDragon Been learning about x86 assembly in one of my CS classes. Is there any way to force the compiler to use a register for a certain variable instead of a place on the stack?

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1:05:35ChronalDragon Been learning about x86 assembly in one of my CS classes. Is there any way to force the compiler to use a register for a certain variable instead of a place on the stack?

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1:06:59culver_fly Just asking, but is it worthwhile to put so much effort on the debug system at this stage? There's a lot of things you're doing right now that I'm not sure how it will help in the future (maybe just because I have never programmed games before), but if I as a newbie game programmer were to work on this, do you suggest going as far as you're going right now or proceed on the gaming part to see what I need first before doing it?

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1:06:59culver_fly Just asking, but is it worthwhile to put so much effort on the debug system at this stage? There's a lot of things you're doing right now that I'm not sure how it will help in the future (maybe just because I have never programmed games before), but if I as a newbie game programmer were to work on this, do you suggest going as far as you're going right now or proceed on the gaming part to see what I need first before doing it?

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1:06:59culver_fly Just asking, but is it worthwhile to put so much effort on the debug system at this stage? There's a lot of things you're doing right now that I'm not sure how it will help in the future (maybe just because I have never programmed games before), but if I as a newbie game programmer were to work on this, do you suggest going as far as you're going right now or proceed on the gaming part to see what I need first before doing it?

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1:08:37Mr4thDimention Well if you would just replace the branches with polymorphism...

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1:08:37Mr4thDimention Well if you would just replace the branches with polymorphism...

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1:08:37Mr4thDimention Well if you would just replace the branches with polymorphism...

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1:08:49elxenoaizd What's more impressive: previous projects + practical experience vs college degree?

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1:08:49elxenoaizd What's more impressive: previous projects + practical experience vs college degree?

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1:08:49elxenoaizd What's more impressive: previous projects + practical experience vs college degree?

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1:09:40JamesWidman Compilers generally ignore the 'register' keyword

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1:09:40JamesWidman Compilers generally ignore the 'register' keyword

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1:09:40JamesWidman Compilers generally ignore the 'register' keyword

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1:10:54xDeadBringerx Ever thinking about running Handmade Hero through cachegrind?

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1:10:54xDeadBringerx Ever thinking about running Handmade Hero through cachegrind?

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1:10:54xDeadBringerx Ever thinking about running Handmade Hero through cachegrind?

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1:13:05Wind it down

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1:13:05Wind it down

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1:13:05Wind it down

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