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RE: [PATCH] Output execution stats from ARM simulator
- From: "Jon Beniston" <jbeniston at compxs dot com>
- To: "'Richard Earnshaw'" <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:54:51 -0000
- Subject: RE: [PATCH] Output execution stats from ARM simulator
- Organization: CompXs
- Reply-to: <jbeniston at compxs dot com>
> >
> > 2004-11-29 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
> >
> > * wrapper.c (sim_info): Output number of instructions
> > executed and number of cycles taken to execute them.
>
> While I don't see anything wrong with your patch, I'm not
> sure whether that information is accurately tracked any more.
> So the numbers probably aren't meaningful, especially for
> any core other than an ARM7 (and I don't mean an ARM7TDMI either).
I can understand cycles not being valid (as this surely is core specific),
but I take it the number of instructions executed should be?
Cheers,
Jon