03444: Registered ram blocks registered with save state cannot be viewed with debugger

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
03444	Debugger	Major	Always	Sep 21, 2009, 19:24	Aug 1, 2012, 17:24

Tester	Haze	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Self-compiled)
Assigned To	R. Belmont	Resolution	Fixed	OS	Windows Vista/7 (64-bit)
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver
Version	0.134	Fixed in Version	0.145	Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	03444: Registered ram blocks registered with save state cannot be viewed with debugger
Description	This has been broken for quite a long time now. One of the most useful features of the debugger used to be the ability to view memory not defined in the memory map, which had been allocated and registered to the save state system. The list would appear with all the other viewable regions. For example, the NeoGeo video ram neogeo_videoram = auto_alloc_array(machine, UINT16, 0x20000/2); state_save_register_global_pointer(machine, neogeo_videoram, 0x20000/2); there is now currently no way to view this ram while the driver is running making debugging significantly more difficult.
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No.08074 Haze Senior Tester Jan 24, 2012, 05:43	Seems like this was only working again for a few versions, and has been broken for ages again... Trying to debug NeoGeo stuff right now, have no way to view the video ram.
No.08099 Haze Senior Tester Jan 29, 2012, 07:28	I'm re-opening this.
No.08835 Haze Senior Tester Aug 1, 2012, 17:24	there is a similar issue with blocks registered within device_start in devices, they don't show up?