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+qemu-system-arm semihosting always calls exit(0)
+
+In my embedded ARM project I have a bunch of unit tests that I run in a POSIX synthetic environment, and, as usual for POSIX processes, these tests return 0 for success and !=0 for error.
+
+Now I expanded the testing environment to run some of these tests compiled for ARM, under QEMU, with the tracing messages forwarded via the semihosting API.
+
+Up to now everything is fine with the emulation. 
+
+However I have a problem with passing the failure code back to the operating system, to drive the continuous integration framework.
+
+I checked the arm-semi.c code and for SYS_EXIT and I discovered that the parameter passed is ignored and it always calls exit(0):
+
+    case SYS_EXIT:
+        gdb_exit(env, 0);
+        exit(0);
+
+To solve my problem I temporarily made a patch, and for cases that should return non zero codes, I call an unsupported BKPT instruction, which makes QEMU abort, and pass an non zero code (1) back to the operating system.
+
+    qemu: Unsupported SemiHosting SWI 0xf1
+
+This kludge is more or less functional, but is quite inconvenient.
+
+After checking the ARM manuals, I discovered that SYS_EXIT is not standard, and the 0x18 code used for it originally was used for angel_SWIreason_ReportException, which has a slightly different purpose.
+
+Now the question:
+
+Would it be possible to no longer ignore the code passed to 0x18, and if it is non zero, to call exit() with a different value?
+
+The suggested rule would be:
+
+if (code ==0 || code == 0x20026)
+  exit(0);
+elif (code < 256)
+  exit(code);
+else
+  exit(1);
+
+The value 0x20026 means ADP_Stopped_ApplicationExit, and, if I understood it right, it means that the program terminated successfully. If this is not true, it can be removed from the first conditional statement.
+
+What do you think? Can this be added to arm-semi.c?
+
+
+Regards,
+
+Liviu
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