Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

[Thomas Orgis]

Am Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:55:16 +0000
schrieb Julian Seward <address@hidden>: 

> The problems of the gcc backend to qemu have already been discussed
> extensively on this list.  Stealing 3+ registers from gcc on x86 really
> is asking for trouble, and I believe it is generally understood that the
> best long term solution is to move to a self-contained back end that 
> does not use gcc for dynamic code generation.

An innocent question: Would _not_ stealing 3 registers be a short term option?
I am still quite new to qemu (as a user, even) so I don't really know anything
about the dynamic code generation and what affects qemu performance anyway.


Thomas.