From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23715 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2005 15:28:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23274 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jul 2005 15:28:09 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:28:09 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.51) id 1DpSrf-0005la-14; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 11:28:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:28:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Janne Hellsten Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: two bugs in the arm simulator Message-ID: <20050704152806.GA22129@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Janne Hellsten , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <700d600f050703200612732a64@mail.gmail.com> <20050704035620.GA7075@nevyn.them.org> <700d600f05070323206be5cb7e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <700d600f05070323206be5cb7e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:20:36PM +0900, Janne Hellsten wrote: > Hi, > > > GNATS ought to have sent you something back. It does have your > > address. I'm afraid PR 1900 is the least of the problems with the > > simulator on 64-bit hosts; it appears to be pretty busted. No one is > > working on either AFAIK though I think there's another PR about the > > busted simulator somewhere. > > Yes, it did send back my reports, but nothing else. > > I can probably fix PR 1957 myself, I'd like to get familiar with the > simulator. The thing is that I'd like to extend GDB's ARM simulator In that case, you may want to file an FSF copyright assignment. Otherwise we can't accept substantive contributions. > so that I can get it to report the number of cycles spent in some > program. This could be used for simple benchmarking (to detect > regression over time). > > I wonder if such an extension would be a big task? I'm not familiar > with GDB's code at all. The GDB simulators aren't even a little bit cycle accurate, unfortunately. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC