Typically when someone uses GetPointer, it's because they want to read
from a range of memory. GetPointer is unsafe to use for this. While it
does check that the passed-in address is valid, it doesn't know the size
of the range that will be accessed, so it can't check that the end
address is valid. The safer alternative GetPointerForRange should be
used instead.
Note that there is still the problem of many callers not checking for
nullptr.
This is part 2 of a series of changes removing the use of GetPointer
throughout the code base. After this, VideoCommon is the one major part
of Dolphin that remains.
By making the JIT cache check if the current state of MMCR0 and MMRC1
matches the state they had at the time the JIT block was compiled, we
solve a correctness issue (marked in a comment as a speed hack).
Not known to affect any games.
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.
These tends to get requested from either pure GDB or Ghidra. They reduce the verbosity of the communications. The QSupported packet is also important to implemnent for future proofing too.
The stub was made with the assumption that the GDB architecture is rs6000:6000, but the closest is actually powerpc:750 which features much more SPR that the gekko supports, but it also has slightly different ID. This commit now assumes the more proper powerpc:750.
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.
