Historically, hosts which have a tick size slower than the tick a simulator
wants to implement can't idle effectively and keep good time.
This change allows simulators which call sim_rtcn_tick_ack() to provide
useful idling behavior while still keeping the passage of wall clock time
to time in the simulator accurate.
The output of remote console commands gets truncated at the configured
buffer size. The default has been raised from 1400 to 8192.
Common remote console usage is from the same host as the simulator and
as such localhost TCP traffic is delivered in chunks at least 8192 so no extra
packets will be involved in transporting the potential extra data and no
transmission delays on the send() call.
The minumum size is now 1400 (which was the prior default).
Previously only the actual size of the container file was used when
attaching a disk. This was correct only when the size of the container
file actually aligned with the simulated disk drive. disks created with
sim_disk_attach automatically write to the last sector of a simulated
disk file when the disk is created. Therefore, auto sizing worked correctly
for any disk created with sim_disk_attach.
Disk images created with simh prior to 4.X would only write to the
portions of the disk drive when the simulated system writes data. These
disk images would only be properly sized if the simulated operation of
the disk had actually written to the last block of the disk. Auto sizing of
these disks would usually size the resulting disk incorrectly and strange
behaviors might occur when using such an incorrectly auto sized disk.
Fixes#357
Clock devices which call sim_register_clock_unit or sim_register_clock_unit_tmr
are best behaved if they use sim_activate_after to schedule their tick events.
The RUN command implicitly resets all devices which may have unexpected
consequences for a novice user.
The logic now produces a warning about this side effect when more than one
RUN command is executed in the same simulator session.
An explicit RESET command suppresses this warning for a subsequent RUN
command.
A RUN command with the -Q switch also suppresses this warning.
Asynchronous clocks are now built for all simulators which are built with
SIM_ASYNCH_IO defined. The default behavior has asynchronous clocks
disabled since this is still experimental, but it can be enabled with
SET TIMER ASYNC.
Catchup clock ticks are now available, but since they're experimental,
they aren't enabled by default. Catchup ticks are only available if the
simulators clock device calls sim_rtcn_tick_ack to acknowledge processing
of clock ticks. The VAX simulators have been modified to leverage this.
Catchup clock ticks can be enabled with SET TIMER CATCHUP
Additionally, an idle threshold is provided which can be used to
influence when clock calibration may be suppressed. The default is not
to suppress calibration activities.
The various timer behaviors are visible with the SHOW TIMER command.
The state of the operating timer facilities is visible with: SHOW CLOCK
Timer events which are queued are visible with the SHOW QUEUE command.
When sim_brk_type_desc isn't populated, the matching breakpoint switches
and matching address are displayed. Fix to use the optional VM provided
address formatting function sim_vm_sprint_addr.
Also extended the optional VM supplied routines to include sim_vm_sprint_addr.
Simulators which provide sim_vm_fprint_addr should also provide
sim_vm_sprint_addr with sim_vm_fprint_addr reworked to leverage
sim_vm_sprint_addr internally. sim_vm_sprint_addr is currently only used by
sim_brk_message() which is an API which a simulator may choose to use if
it supports multiple breakpoint types,
- Add detailed error message info while parsing breakpoint commands
- Properly limit breakpoint class values to reflect available mask bits
- Declare globally sim_brk_npc since it is a documented API
- Revise simh_breakpoints.doc to reflect current behavior
- Previous changes made to support 32V's 60HZ clock tick introduced changes
which didn't properly handle increments and interrupt generation while single
stepping the timer.
- The icr_rd routine returned an incorrect value when interpolation was
necessary due to a missing cast when converting from double to uint32.
- Properly start the timer from the current state of the interval count register
when the timer was previously stopped.
Reworked all priority adjustment code to leverage a new
sim_os_set_thread_priority API which is coded to use pthreads or OS
priority adjustment APIs as necessary.
The new RUN/GO command syntax supports a stop criteria.
There are two forms of stop criteria:
1) A normal breakpoint (which exists only until it is encountered)
2) A user specified output string is emitted by the simulated system.
Command syntax is:
RUN|GO {START-PC-VALUE} {UNTIL breakpoint|"output-string"}
Multiple rules with the same match string are processed in the order the EXPECT
commands are entered. NOEXPECT will remove all pending EXPECT rules which
have the match string provided on the NOEXPECT line.
These changes facilitate more robust parameter type checking and helps
to identify unexpected coding errors.
Most simulators can now also be compiled with a C++ compiler without
warnings.
Additionally, these changes have also been configured to facilitate easier
backporting of simulator and device simulation modules to run under the
simh v3.9+ SCP framework.
The SHOW FEATURES will enumerate all devices in a simulator and for each of
them display the device specific description if one is available.
This change allows the description to be optionally visible for a single device
displayed with SHOW DEVICE.
The previous change in handling or SCPE_EXPECT transformed it to SCPE_OK
to avoid unexpected exiting or condition trapping. This didn't allow the
SCPE_EXPECT reason to be display if verbose mode was on.
The exploit purpose of an EXPECT command is to return control to the SCP
interpreter when data output matches the expect condition; This will then
allow either related action commands specified on the EXCEPT command to
be performed or subsequent commands in the running command file.
