sparc-rtems4.8-sis simulator not available on MSYS

[ralf.corsepius at rtems.org (Ralf Corsepius)]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:51 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > we are just proceeding with our SPARC session here and we are happpy to
> > have the SPARC toolchain up and running under MSYS.
> >
> > Unfortunately we found out that sparc-rtems4.8-gdb under MSYS does not
> > come with the SIS simulator :-(
> >
> > Is there a technical reason why it was excluded or could this be
> > reenabled? The same toolchain version under Linux (openSUSE 10.3) is
> > more complete.
> >
> >   
> All of the gdb simulators we have BSPs for use POSIX signals. 

Exactly. MinGW is lacking them.


> Chris made an offer of resolving it a year or so ago but the
> discussion devolved into "we won't accept a small solution
> but want the thing fixed right."  But I don't recall anyone defining
> "right".

"Right": Emulate POSIX signals in MinGW.

Ralf