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Re: Add support for target switches in simulator
> I have not worked out how this feature would be accessed from
>> > GDB. My guess is that the switches could be added to the
>> > arguments passed via sim_open(), but how would a GDB user tell
>> > GDB to add these switches ?
>
>
>> Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:
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>> Hmm, I thought there was already a way to tell the simulator what
>> amount of memory to use.
I've an approved patch for:
(gdb) target sim -m <number>
Nick suggested some tweaks that I didn't get back to :-/
> So did I, but looking through the GDB sources I do not see a place
> where it is used.
It isn't. The interface is marked obsolete. Instead sim-common
simulators use:
(gdb) sim memory-size ...
>> Couldn't a similar method be employed.
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>
> That method is specific to setting the memory size - it uses a
> simulator/debugger interface call specifically set up for the
> purpose. I looked for the function - sim_size() - and found it being
> used by the run program but not by GDB. I am puzzled.
>
> Anyway the point here is that setting the memory size appears to be a
> specific API function and I want a generic method to set any kind of
> target specific option.
Andrew