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authorMichael Walle <michael@walle.cc>2014-04-22 20:18:42 +0200
committerMichael Walle <michael@walle.cc>2014-05-24 19:42:29 +0200
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parenta946ce802002fe6233adbf1a6222d0837d44fc33 (diff)
target-lm32: add semihosting support
Intercept certain system calls if semihosting is enabled. This should behave like the GDB simulator. Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
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@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ first BSP which instantiate this model. A (32 bit) write to 0xfff0000
causes a vm shutdown.
+Semihosting
+-----------
+Semihosting on this target is supported. Some system calls like read, write
+and exit are executed on the host if semihosting is enabled. See
+target/lm32-semi.c for all supported system calls. Emulation aware programs
+can use this mechanism to shut down the virtual machine and print to the
+host console. See the tcg tests for an example.
+
+
Special instructions
--------------------
The translation recognizes one special instruction to halt the cpu: