From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3794 invoked by alias); 9 Mar 2009 22:52:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 3785 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Mar 2009 22:52:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.oarcorp.com (HELO OARmail.OARCORP.com) (216.186.189.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:52:51 +0000 Received: from iceland.oarcorp.com (192.168.1.150) by OARmail.OARCORP.com (192.168.2.2) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.340.0; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:52:48 -0500 Message-ID: <49B59DC0.6000201@oarcorp.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:52:00 -0000 From: Joel Sherrill User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent GUERBY CC: Joern Rennecke , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: regression test coverage for sim/common ? References: <20090309183049.k1gtv5m4744k04wo-nzlynne@webmail.spamcop.net> <1236638470.11347.1980.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1236638470.11347.1980.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2009-03/txt/msg00071.txt.bz2 Laurent GUERBY wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 18:30 -0400, Joern Rennecke wrote: > >> I have a patch that speeds up simulator startup for simulators that >> use code in sim/common to create a new simulator instance. >> >> Instead of xmalloc / memset I use xcalloc to obtain zeroed memory; >> on operating systems like a recent glibc/Linux system, this allows >> the pages to me faultyed in as if they had been mmapped. >> >> What would be a suitable simulator target for a regression test? >> > > I'm cc-ing Joel Sherrill, he has setup GCC tests for lots *-rtems > targets for GCC and those use heavily GDB simulators. His testing > process builds binutils, GDB and other stuff completely from source (I > believe his test framework is even commited and documented somewhere, in > addition to running on the compile farm :). > > It looks like the m32r would be a good target. > Sincerely, > > Laurent > > > -- Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985