Re: AW: [Simulavr-devel] [patch #3453] gdbserver.c gdb_extract_hex_nu m(...) bug fix (for more recent gdb versions)

[Klaus Rudolph]

Paul Schlie schrieb:

> I'm using Mac OSX with the latest development versions of gnu tools, and
> choose to try the "old" C version to avoid some Linux communication
> socket/port dependencies which seem to be present in simulavrxx from
> reviewing the mail-list, and wanted to try to keep things simpler by not
> having to deal initially with potential C++ coding/debug issues.
>  

Yes, that I could realy understand :-)

> (personally, I think it would be a good idea to continue to support and
> maintain simulavr, and possibly not think of it as "old" code, but rather as
> the parent C implementation, as I don't see any good reason to abandon it in
> favor of simulavrxx requiring C++ at the moment)
>  
You are right if you want to have simulavr also in the future, 
especially while simulavrxx is
currently not moved to the windows world. But I wrote simullavrxx 
because I need a lot
of new features and a much (for me) easier way to do this. Object oriented
C-coding is something I don´t like very much. But that is a discussion 
of taste.
From my side I will implement only new things in simulavrxx and 
simulavr is for
me "old" code. Simulavrxx is not simply a c++ copy of simulavr, no, it 
is completly
new (but some lines are copied, like gdbserver things :-))).

> - are there any fixes in simulavrxx which have not been back-ported yet to
> simulavr which would be helpfu
I have no idea how many bugs are inside simulavr. The code on simulavrxx 
is nearly complete
new, so there is no "bugfix" which is not putted to simulavr.

> - it also may be a good idea to contribute simulavr to the gdb/binutils cvs
> development branch, to enable gcc/binutils/gdb/etc. bug reporting and
> verification via target simulation to proceed more easily to the benefit of
> those interested in gnu avr tools.
>
>  
Not in my heands.... but I think simulation is not part of binutils for 
any plattform.

Thanks
 Klaus