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On Monday 29 April 2013 08:47:44 Jayant R. Sonar wrote: > This patch adds simulator support for handling the armv7 instructions > 'movw (immediate)' and 'movt'. > > Compiler frequently use these instructions to load the 32bit addresses of > global variables, string pointers etc. into the general registers. > > In absence of support of these instructions: > 1. GDB run simulator fails to print even simple "hello world" string > on console. > 2. Loading of global variable addresses into the registers fail causing > arithmetic operation failures. > > Patch has been regression tested for arm-none-eabi (-march=armv7-a). thanks, looks fine to me (not that i'm an ARM ISA expert) i don't suppose you could write a small test in sim/testsuite/sim/arm/ ? -mike
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