Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 23 October 2006 1:58 pm, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Although, all told, it would seem to me that what might be called for
> > here is a new gcc target.  A gcc target specifically for generating qemu
> > code.  That would just simply generate whatever qemu wanted for function
> > postamble.
> 
> Better to just teach qemu how to generate code.
> In fact I've already done most of the infrastructure (and a fair amount of 
the 
> legwork) for this. The only major missing function is code to do softmmu 
> load/store ops.
> https://nowt.dyndns.org/

So given that one of the reasons for doing this would be getting away from 
depending on specific and increasily out of date versions of gcc to build the 
thing, what would be involved in getting this version to build under gcc-4.x?

(I tried, and it didn't...)

Rob
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