From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Evans To: Ben Elliston Cc: CGEN Subject: Initial state? Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <14884.45940.629937.307396@casey.transmeta.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00156.html Ben Elliston writes: > One useful property of a CPU that I think meets the application-neutral > requirement for new .cpu entries is its initial state -- the power-up values > for registers, in particular. > > This would help in generating simulator code whereby the code could be a) > automatically generated by CGEN and b) remembered. :-) It is application independent, but it's also not useful to more than a few apps. I also wonder whether certain chips have different kinds of resets. I'm not sure where the best place to record the information is but I'm slightly leaning toward tucking this info away by itself.