From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27233 invoked by alias); 17 May 2002 13:46:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27190 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 13:46:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com) (195.224.55.226) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 13:46:52 -0000 Received: from north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (host217-39-2-165.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.2.165]) by dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679162B563 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:46:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EED1C39D; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:46:41 +0100 (BST) To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Add support for target switches in simulator References: <200205171236.NAA22311@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> From: Nick Clifton Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 06:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200205171236.NAA22311@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00710.txt.bz2 Hi Richard, > > > 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? I doubt it. I suspect that it is just a historical thing. Cheers Nick