On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM, David Brownell<davi...@pacbell.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Igor Skochinsky wrote: >> As for ARM, I think arm_simulator.c and arm_disassembler.c should be >> merged since they share a lot of functionality. > > They seem kind of separate to me. I can disassemble without > wanting to simulate. And vice versa. > > If anything, they should be *more* separate. > > The whole simulator bears some thought though. Is the whole > point of it just to enable one type of single stepping? I > don't recall seeing comments about when/why the simulator > would kick in.
Single stepping instructions is done by doing a "dry run" of the current instruction to see what PC it ends up at. A breakpoint is then set at that site and the CPU runs to the next instruction. some arm11 CPUs can use hardware to perform this function, but i.MX31 can't. -- Øyvind Harboe Embedded software and hardware consulting services http://www.zylin.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
