home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!news.u-tokyo.ac.jp!ccut!s.u-tokyo!riksun!rknss1!rkna50!wong
- From: wong@rkna50.riken.go.jp (Wong Weng Fai)
- Subject: Re: SPARC Simulator ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.071832.19406@rkna50.riken.go.jp>
- Sender: wong@rkna50.riken.go.jp (Wong Weng Fai)
- Organization: Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama,Japan
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:18:32 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
-
- Hello,
-
- Thanks to everyone who responded. Unfortunately, it appears that my
- search is in vain. There were more mails saying "Yeah ! I want that too ! So
- keep me posted of anything you got" than those offering help. Those who did
- offer help spoke of the two trace tools for the SPARC available on the public
- domain : SPA and Shade/Shadow - both of which I have. What I wanted was to
- be able to modify the instruction set in an (fairly) arbitrary way. A trace
- tool can't do that. Thanks anyway !
-
- Well, the bottom line seems to be - there aren't any ! Its probably
- not too difficult to hack one up but the problem is to support all those
- nasty system services properly - especially stuff like malloc which requires
- detailed information about the memory (which wouldn't be the same for a
- simulator and an actual execution).
-
- A suggestion though ... if anyone do come up with such a simulator,
- may I suggest that in line with SPIM, one should name it "SPARC" spelled
- backwards, i.e.
-
- C R A P S ! ! !
-
- :-):-):-)
-
- Thanks again !
-
- Regards,
-
- W.F. Wong.
-
-