Spim C++

hippo100 · 11-11-2004, 07:57 PM

Is there any way to incorporate SPIM into a C++ program?

Mara · 11-12-2004, 03:12 PM

What would you like to do exactly? You can run it using one of teh functions from the exec() family.

hippo100 · 11-12-2004, 03:44 PM

My main question is how, once the SPIM simulator is started, I can send commands to it.

Mara · 11-13-2004, 02:12 PM

I don't remember how spim works exactly, but how it may be done:
* fork your process
* redirect standard input and output from one (file descriptors 0 and 1) to a pipe connected to the second one (pipe is one direction)
* exec spim in on of the processes
Then you should be able to read from pipe connected to spim's descriptor 1 (what means its messages) and write to one connected to 0 (so give it commands).