From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24975 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2007 22:13:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 24967 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2007 22:13:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:13:25 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 956CE982D0; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:13:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEFF982A5; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:13:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I6w3F-0001ul-NE; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:13:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:13:00 -0000 From: 'Daniel Jacobowitz' To: Eric Weddington Cc: 'Jim Blandy' , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: What should a CPU simulator support? Message-ID: <20070706221321.GA7338@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Weddington , 'Jim Blandy' , gdb@sourceware.org References: <20070706122023.GA11676@caradoc.them.org> <027201c7c018$0b14a940$10745f0a@cso.atmel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <027201c7c018$0b14a940$10745f0a@cso.atmel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:53:10PM -0600, Eric Weddington wrote: > For the AVR target, there is no internal simulator in GDB, but there is an > external simulator available, simulavr: > > which uses the GDB remote protocol. > > You specifically recommend that we keep this layout (external simultor), > rather than try to develop a new AVR simulator that would go into the GDB > tree, correct? Yes, I do. That doesn't mean GDB can't change to work better with your simulator, of course - or that using a built-in simulator is somehow wrong. But I've found that a strict partition between a cooperating simulator and a cooperating GDB has the best results. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery