Re: What should a CPU simulator support?

'Daniel Jacobowitz'
2007-07-06T22:13:36Z

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:
> <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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