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Subject: Re: Add support for target switches in simulator 
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:37:00 -0000
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
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> > How does this proposed facility compare to that provided by
> > sim/common/sim-options*?
> 
> It is a similar kind of thing accept that it has two advantages:
> 
>   * It works for simulators that do not use sim-common.[ch]  (such as
>     the ARM simualtor).

Is there a good reason why the ARM simulator is not using sim-common?

R.