Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: return more meaningful exit status

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 April 2014 22:42, Eric Botcazou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this partially addresses a long-standing limitation of the ARM semi-hosting
> mode, whereby the only exit status of the emulator is 0, whatever the exit
> status of the target executable, by mapping arguments of the SYS_EXIT syscall.
>
> See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-02/msg02178.html for
> an earlier attempt.

Since you've found that, can you provide your answer to the objection
raised back then, that this is not permitted by the semihosting API
which we are implementing here?

thanks
-- PMM