What should a CPU simulator support?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Jul 6 12:02:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:26:48AM -0700, Robert Norton wrote:
> Is this still the recommended way of making a built-in simulator? I

Depends what you mean.  I suppose it is, but I recommend not making a
built-in simulator at all (using TCP to talk to your simulator).

> noticed when upgrading our port that the api for simulator implemented
> breakpoints has been removed! We're not interested in implementing soft
> breakpoints so I had to resurrect this support in remote-sim.c.

Do you mean SIM_HAS_BREAKPOINT?  I believe it was removed four years
ago for lack of any simulators in the tree which used it.  That's life
with an uncontributed port :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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