From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drotos To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb@cygnus.com Subject: Re: native gdb+simulator Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 01:53:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <371412FF.CD662E48@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q2/msg00031.html On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Andrew Cagney wrote: [ ... ] Thanks for the info! > Should I infer that there could be a GPL'd i386 simulator in the making? No. We are working on GPL'd development environment for MCS51 based micros. C compiler is working now, simulator is ready too. It would be nice to use gdb as a sphisticated interface to the simulator. My idea is that hex file generated by the compiler/linker could be placed in an empty elf file, for example in a .mcs51code section which could be passed to the simulator by the gdb-sim interface. If the compiler could produce debug info in stab format then it could be included into that empty 'template' elf file too, so gdb could debug it, I hope. So it doesn't matter what the native target is, any kind of elf could be usabe I think. Daniel