That's kind of what I thought.
- Hendrik

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Hendrik Greving <
hendrik.greving....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Sebastian Ottlik <ott...@fzi.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the -icount feature does actually count the number of executed
>> instructions (with a TB granularity). It is not output directly but used to
>> simulate the system clock after being scaled by N. In theory this should
>> allow a deterministic simulation even when interacting with hardware (e.g.,
>> using a simulated HW timer). However, as I understand, it my be warped by
>> the host execution time in some situations, which could be
>> non-deterministic.
>>
>> As far as I know the functionality you are looking for is not directly
>> available in QEMU, but can be added with a few changes to arm/translate.c
>> and related files. The num_insns is a counter for the number of
>> instructions in the TB that is currently being generated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Sebastian
>>
>
>

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