armv7/8-A simulator port

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armv7/8-A simulator port

Postby faisal » Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:17 pm

I've been making use of the simulator port quite a bit, and now need to be able to run simulation on something like a raspberry pi.

The current simulation port is for x86. Any hope you can make a port for armv7-A and armv8-A (I think they may be identical?).

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Re: armv7/8-A simulator port

Postby Giovanni » Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:36 pm

Hi,

I don't have ARM Linux hosts but ARMv7a should be simple, ARMv8a I have no idea frankly, never touched that.

Anyway the only asm code required is the switch routine: push all function-saved registers, switch stack, pop all function-saved registers, the rest of simulator files would be exactly the same.

In case of ARMv7a it could be the very same simulator port with an #ifdef around the switch code.

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