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Subject: Re: simulator runtime sanity checks
From: Michael Snyder <Michael.Snyder@palmsource.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 04:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> is this expected behavior ?  or should the higher sim layers catch this ?
> 
> happens with latest cvs HEAD and arm-elf-gdb as well ...
> 
> $ bfin-elf-gdb
> (gdb) target sim
> Connected to the simulator.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program:
> warning: No executable file specified.
> warning: No program loaded.
> Segmentation fault

You told the simulator to run, with no loaded program, 
and with memory basically in an un-initialized state.
I'd say the behavior was not surprising.

Which higher sim layer would you expect to catch this?