regression test coverage for sim/common ?

[Joel Sherrill]

Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 18:30 -0400, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>   
>> I have a patch that speeds up simulator startup for simulators that
>> use code in sim/common to create a new simulator instance.
>>
>> Instead of xmalloc / memset I use xcalloc to obtain zeroed memory;
>> on operating systems like a recent glibc/Linux system, this allows
>> the pages to me faultyed in as if they had been mmapped.
>>
>> What would be a suitable simulator target for a regression test?
>>     
>
> I'm cc-ing Joel Sherrill, he has setup GCC tests for lots *-rtems
> targets for GCC and those use heavily GDB simulators. His testing
> process builds binutils, GDB and other stuff completely from source (I
> believe his test framework is even commited and documented somewhere, in
> addition to running on the compile farm :).
>
>   

It looks like the m32r would be a good target. 
> Sincerely,
>
> Laurent
>
>
>   


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