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authorSteve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>2005-08-19 17:10:17 -0400
committerSteve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>2005-08-19 17:10:17 -0400
commit03e256b0f004bfe1dbe4006878b4479f25484b74 (patch)
tree0cf6d39f9ea35230f9fe905ef315a5a2b8a28d62 /README
parent40696ccda209cc97e796bf0d4e30e212a294d185 (diff)
downloadgem5-03e256b0f004bfe1dbe4006878b4479f25484b74.tar.xz
A few minor fixes to get things to build on Cygwin.
README: Clarify cygwin EIO error explanation. build/SConstruct: Cygwin header files cause uninitialized var warnings. dev/ide_ctrl.cc: Get rid of unnecessary byte-swap calls, some of which were too ambiguous for cygwin (or gcc 3.4.4). dev/pcidev.cc: Disambiguate arg for overloaded byte swap operation (and fix it to be the correct one). --HG-- extra : convert_revision : be37c6315aacbec6332b1d09e726b39b4aa18dce
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@@ -65,9 +65,10 @@ To build and test the syscall-emulation simulator:
2. In $top/m5-test, run "./do-tests.pl -B ALPHA_SE".
The tests should end with "finished do-tests successfully!"
-Note: if you're running under Cygwin several tests will fail with an
-"EIO icount mismatch". This is due to the lack of fesetround() under
-Cygwin causing differences in floating-point rounding.
+Note: if you're running under Cygwin, several tests will fail with an
+"EIO trace inconsistency: ICNT mismatch" error. This is due to the
+lack of fesetround() under Cygwin causing differences in floating-point
+rounding. Other than that discrepancy your simulator is working perfectly.
To build and test the full-system simualator: