[LLVMdev] [llvm-announce] llvm and simplescalar

[David Greene]

On Sunday 15 June 2008 22:30, Andrew Lenharth wrote:
> It use to.  alphasim (the validated alpha model based on simplescalar)
> is better though.  Also, since no one has needed to run simplescalar
> experiments, the alpha backend has bitrotted some.  The last version
> that I know worked with most of spec was llvm 1.8 or so.  You need to
> get or write an elf64 loader and fix a couple instruction
> implementations in simplescalar to get it to run linux binaries (I
> have both somewhere).

IMNSHO, don't use SimpleScalar.  It's simulation model is WAY ourt of date.

Use M5 instead:

http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

                                                  -Dave