- Provide a sim_islower(), sim_isalpha(), sim_isprinit(), sim_isdigit(), sim_isgraph(), sim_isalnum() which make sure that the character being examined as an unsigned char.
- Ignore a UTF_BOM sequence at the beginning of command files.
- Provide a sim_isspace() which makes sure that isspace only considers the character being examined as an unsigned char.
- EXPECT will now tolerate a HALTAFTER=n parameter which delay the simulator stopping execution for n instructions. Unpredictable behavior will happen if multiple EXPECT conditions see matching data before the first actualy halt occurs.
- SEND has an AFTER=n argument which delays the initial stuffed data from being input for at least n instructions. It also has a DELAY=m argument which specifies the minimum number of instructions which must execute between stuffed input data.
- Changed run_cmd() to no longer clear pending breakpoint actions before starting instruction execution.
- Added a -Q switch to the commands which dispatch through run_cmd() (RUN, STEP, NEXT, GO, BOOT, etc.). This switch will suppress status output when execution stops. This will allow sequences of breakpoint action commands to silently execute when needed.
Ideas based on Dave Bryan's console halt efforts.
sim> SEND {<mux>:line} {DELAY=n,}"string"
Where <mux> is the name of the device pointed to by the TMXR structure. If <mux>:line isn't specified, then the console device is implicitly being referenced.
Delay is optional and once set persists for subsequent SEND operations to the same device. Delay defaults to 1000. The DELAY value is a minimum number of instructions which must execute before the next character in the provided string will be injected to the console port. The DELAY value has effect between the characters delivered as well. "string" requires quotes and within the quoted string, common C escape character syntax is available (\r\r\t, etc.).
Each device (console, and each line in each mux) has a separate value for DELAY.
An arbitrary number of 'expect' conditions can be defined. The command syntax is:
sim> EXPECT {<mux>:line} {[cnt]} "matchstring" {actioncommand {; actioncommand ...}}
Where <mux> is the name of the device pointed to by the TMXR structure. If <mux>:line isn't specified, then the console device is implicitly being referenced.
"matchstring" requires quotes and within the quoted string, common C escape character syntax is available (\r\r\t, etc.). The quotes used can be single or double quotes, but the closing quote must match the opening quote. The match string might be extended to allow the use of perl style regular expressions in the "matchstring" when a -R switch is specified on the command line.
sim> EXPECT "Enter Color: " SEND "Red\r"; g
A specific 'expect' condition can be removed with:
sim> NOEXPECT {<mux>:line} "matchstring"
All 'expect' conditions can be removed with:
sim> NOEXPECT {<mux>:line}
'expect' conditions can be examined with:
sim> SHOW EXPECT {<mux>:line}
Expect rules are one-shots (i.e. they disappear once a match has occurred) unless they are explicitly described as persistent with the -P switch.
The -C switch is available when defining expect rules. The effect of a rule defined with the -C flag is that when an expect match occurs for that rule, ALL rules are cleared for that device (console or <mux>:line).
The goals here being to simplify calling code while getting consistent output delivered everywhere it may be useful.
Modified most places which explicitly used sim_log or merely called printf to now avoid doing that and merely call sim_printf().
- Avoid assignments of void * values. Cast all memory allocation return values to appropriate types.
- Add output to sim_log where missing in various places.
- Fixed issue with lost file positions after a restore for devices which leverage the UNIT_SEQ flag.
sim> set debug -r -a -t -p somefile
-a produces seconds.msec time format
-t produces hh:mm:ss.msec time format
-r causes time values displayed to be relative to the wall clock time when the 'set debug' command was issued
-r by itself will cause default of -t
-a and -t can both be specified if desired
-p adds display of current PC value to the debug timestamp output
sim> show debug
- Added event debug support to scp and the vax simulator
- Moved external declarations into include files related to modules which define them and removed random externs from modules which referenced them
- Fixed typos in sim_ether
- Fixed sim_disk and sim_tape to properly manage asynchronous threads on an i/o flush
scp.c,scp.h - Gave priority to a command message handler to determine what values result in displayed messages and exported run_cmd_message for use by simulators which add simulator specific BOOT commands which leverage the run_cmd logic and should also leverage the run_cmd_message for message display
VAX/vax610_sysdev.c, vax730_sys.c, vax750_cmi.c, vax780_sbi.c - Added BOOT command message dispatch to run_cmd_message for simulators which perform preprocessing on BOOT activities but otherwise then dispatch to run_cmd.
Added support for per line tcp listen ports.
Added support for per line outgoing tcp/telnet connections.
Removed DEV_NET from pdp11_dz and pdp11_vh emulators to allow proper restore of
It also modifies the HP 2100 and PDP11 multiplexers to add serial support as demonstrations of the capability that, one day, might be extended to all simulators. I have tested the HP support, but I relied on Holger Veit to test the DEC stuff, so I can't guarantee that it works. I also relied on Holger to test under Linux, so the same caveat applies.
The changes needed in the device simulators are relatively small. For example, if you look at the patches for "hp2100_baci.c", you'll note that most of them are documentation changes. The only things of note are:
- an expansion of the TMXR initializer
- additional code in the "attach" routine to try attaching a serial port
if attaching a socket fails
- additional code in the "detach" routine for the same reasons
The HP MPX device (hp2100_mpx.c) needs a tiny bit of additional support from the ATTACH and DETACH commands. Specifically, SCP was modified to set a flag ("sim_unit_ref") to indicate whether ATTACH MPX or ATTACH MPX0 was done, i.e., to differentiate between a device and a unit attach (recall that SCP treats these as both referring to unit 0). This is needed because the socket attaches (logically) to the device, whereas a serial port attaches to a line. Without this flag, the attach routine cannot differentiate between ATTACH MPX and ATTACH MPX0, as the distinction is lost by the time the VM's attach routine is called. This support isn't needed for the HP MUX device because the socket attaches to a different device than the lines do.
MPX also requires a bit more work due to the capability to mix serial and Telnet lines on the same multiplexer (BACI is a single-line terminal device).
The attached PDF contains revisions to the "Writing a Simulator for the SIMH System" publication that documents the additions and changes to the multiplexer library for serial port support. User documentation for serial port support currently exists only in the initial comments in "sim_tmxr.c"; I will add the appropriate text to the "SIMH User's Guide" if we decide to add this to the release version.
Added Message Suppression flag for status values, including providing a -Q option to the RETURN command to return with a message suppressed status
Added Do command file default extension of .sim (from Dave Bryan)
Added -O option to DO command file invocation which causes the caller's ON state and actions to be inherited in the newly called DO command file
Added Command Line expansion to include a %* which expands to the whole set of arguments (%1 ... %9)
Relaxed Command Line argument substitution (delimited by %'s) which cause environment variable lookups to first lookup the literal name provided and if that fails, lookup the name upcased.
Added a SIM_VERIFY special Command Line expansion variable which expands to "-V" when command echoing is active
Added a SIM_MESSAGE special Command Line expansion variable which expands to "-Q" when error message display is suppressed
Added Command Aliasing, which causes the initial token on a command line to be looked up in the environment variable table, and if it exists to substitute the expansion for the initial token.
Changed environment variable defining (with SET ENV variable=value) to always upcase the variable name.
Added SHIFT command which shifts the numbered argument variables %1 ... %9 to the left by one (%1 becomes what was %2, etc.)
Added CALL command which will call a routine (label) in the currently executing command file
Added SET VERIFY and SET NOVERIFY commands which enable or disable DO command echoing
Added SET MESSAGE and SET NOMESSAGE commands which globally enable or disable the display of status messages when commands (or Do Commands) return with unsuccessful status
Added SET ON INHERIT and SET ON NOINHERIT to globally enable inheritance of ON state and actions when DO commands are invoked
Added PROCEED and IGNORE commands which are do nothing but return success. These can be used in specific ON actions to possibly ignore particular return status values
Added DO command file line number to error messages which are displayed while processing DO command files
Expanded the DO command nesting level to 20 to potentially allow for more nesting due to the extensive use of CALL commands are used
- Removed flawed logic which assumed that sim_interval was meaningful when referenced by an asynchronous thread.
- Adjust the event_time of events removed from the asynch queue to account for the average time spent on the queue before the event was noticed by the instruction execution thread.
- Added a sim_activate_notbefore function which specifies an rtime which is the earliest time the event should fire.
- Changed the 'wakeup from idle' logic to force an immediate asynch queue check if the wakeup was not due to a timeout (i.e. it was due to an asynch queue insertion).
- Fixed the descrip.mms to build asynchronous support on AXP and IA64 VMS with kernel threads enabled
