Re: [RFA] remote-sim.c: Add support for multiple sim instances

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> writes:

Kevin> A very nice side effect of this patch is that it is now possible to
Kevin> have more than one runnable simulator instance.

Cool.

Kevin> It seems to me that, long term, the right way to do it is to create a
Kevin> new sim instance for each invocation of "target sim".  That, however,
Kevin> is not what I did.  
[...]
Kevin> But, back to the "right way" for a moment.  It seems to me that,
Kevin> ideally, we'd want to be able to have one inferior connected to a
Kevin> remote target, another to a simulator, another to a different remote
Kevin> target, yet another to a sim using a different architecture variant,
Kevin> etc.  In order for that to happen, the target vector will need to
Kevin> become a per-inferior data structure.

Yeah, this has come up a few times now.  Somewhere, fairly recently,
Pedro mentioned his preferred approach to this.

Kevin> Comments?  Okay to commit?

This isn't an area I am comfortable with, but I didn't want to let your
message go un-replied-to.

I think the idea of putting globals into a per-sim struct is great.
This seems unobjectionable to me.

For the rest, I don't really know, though it seems basically reasonable.

Tom