Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] CONFIG_MMU_MAP powerpc host support

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On 28 déc. 04, at 11:04, Daniel Egger wrote:

> On 28.12.2004, at 10:55, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
>
> > > But GNU binutils should accept both, so simply changing to the syntax
> > > of the crippled Mac OSX assembler should do the trick.
>
> > GNU binutils on Darwin is not a regular thing. By default Apple ships 
> > their own binutils, "cctools". And their is no option to switch the 
> > syntax used in the cctools, so we'll have to handle both syntax.
>
> Sorry for being unclear. I mean that the syntax should be changed
> to the one of cctools because the GNU binutils are supposed to
> handle that just fine.

My fault... I didn't pay enough attention to the sentence.

> Actually I'm a bit unsure about the displacement syntax but
> I know that register names are accepted by GNU binutils and
> cctools because I've written quite a lot of AltiVec code
> which works on both Linux and MacOSX without any tricks.

Hum, seems to be a good trick... Google search returns the "-mregnames" 
option. But it seems that it doesn't deal with ha16() or lo16(), so 
we'll have to deal with it. However I think it is still better than 
duplicating the PowerPC code.

Pierre.