RE: [Simulavr-devel] patch #6776: No segfault on access to notimplemented I/O registers

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: [Simulavr-devel] patch #6776: No segfault on access 
> to notimplemented I/O registers
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> Hi,
> 
> When you access a non-existent address or IO
> location, it is just logged in the trace output
> if tracing is enabled.
> 
> This seems like an error condition the user
> would care about.  Shouldn't there also be
> a message on stderr?

Seems reasonable to me, as doing that (accessing a non-existent address or IO 
location) would be an error condition in the simulated program. The user should 
be notified in an unambiguous way.