VMIPS 1.0.3 has been released. VMIPS is a MIPS R3000 virtual machine simulator with support for a serial console and GNU cross-compiler tools. This is a minor bug-fix release. You can download VMIPS 1.0.3 from any of the following sites: * ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/vmips/ * ftp://sartre.dgate.org/vmips/releases/vmips-1.0.3/ * http://download.sourceforge.net/vmips/ * http://sartre.dgate.org/vmips/releases/vmips-1.0.3/ * http://vmips.sourceforge.net/releases/vmips-1.0.3/ VMIPS is free software available under the GNU General Public License; for details, please read the file "COPYING". For installation instructions, please read "INSTALL". VMIPS was built by Brian Gaeke and others; for details, please see the files "AUTHORS" and "THANKS". New features since the last publically released version are detailed in "NEWS". The home page for VMIPS is "http://sartre.dgate.org/vmips". For bug reporting instructions, please see the VMIPS Manual. User-visible changes in version 1.0.3 (since version 1.0.2): * Fixed bug in debugger interface; TLB translations caused by the debugger trying to access user space could fail if the virtual page number was not 0. * Fixed bugs in the following instructions: lb, lh, lwr, lwl, swr, swl, nor. * Clarified some especially confusing comments in the source code, in one of the test cases, and in the testsuite README. * The sample setup code now halts on all exceptions, including user TLB miss exceptions. * Fixed some warnings compiling xmboot using recent versions of gcc. To get the code from CVS as any bug fixes are added, checkout from branch "vmips-1_0-branch". VMIPS 1.0.3 itself can be checked out using the tag "release-1-0-3". Please refer to the bug reporting instructions in the VMIPS manual if you have trouble using the software. -Brian Gaeke and the VMIPS developers