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From: bruce@cs.su.oz (Bruce Janson)
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Subject: Re: Page size and linkers
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Date: 25 Jan 91 13:31:36 GMT
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Marc,

In article <azofdo.b1j@wang.com> marcs@slc.com (Marc San Soucie) writes:
>..
>One of the real goodies, which I have yet to see in a UNIX system, was a
>service provided by the Kernel (and making liberal use of a nifty 68020/30
>hardware feature) whereby one could run one's program under the auspices of the
>debugger..

On the newer RISC chips the instruction sets and their encodings
are fairly straightforward.
It's not too much trouble to write a simulator that runs your
program (albeit slowly), printing out the jump/call info., and
thereby avoiding the need for os support.

Cheers,
bruce.

Bruce Janson
Basser Department of Computer Science
University of Sydney
Sydney, N.S.W., 2006
AUSTRALIA

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