On Nov 11, 2007, at 7:09 PM, John Sonnenschein wrote:
> I suggested ski because it's free to download & redistribute  
> whereas simics isn't.

That's actually the greatest disadvantage of Simics. Other than that,  
it's just perfect.
The fact that students can get one-year license for free is not a  
sufficient substitute. I wish they had at least something like a free  
player or even a free debugger with some high-end features disabled.

> Theoretically it /should/ compile on solaris, but if you look at  
> the ski source there's a lot of OS dependent code in there so it  
> actually needs a port to solaris rather than a simple fixing of GNU  
> Autobreak configurations

You tell me, I am just trying to make it compile on Mac OS X :-)
On Linux it works nice though. It simulates CPU, memory and a couple  
of debugging devices.
Now that the source is free and open, one can even understand some  
undocumented behavior it has  such as when you write to certain  
memory areas (e.g legacy video ram), the data written is simply lost.  
Or that its ELF loader confuses LMA and VMA of the ELF image.

Regards,
Jakub
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