On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 17.01.2008 um 18:34 schrieb Alexander Graf:
I tested sparc-softmmu, ppc-softmmu, ppc64-softmmu, i386-softmmu
on Linux/i386 from your gcc4 branch. It compiles okay on gcc
(GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2).
Runtime behavior was identical to CVS+gcc-3.4.
Could you please test gcc4 for PowerPC as well? I don't see a
reason this should not work on OSX/PPC.
As mentioned earlier, on OSX/ppc QEMU worked even without this
patch mostly (with always_inline fix applied), only when running Q
I got occasional crashes.
Using gcc4 on OSX/ppc still is not that bad of an idea. I don't know
when Apple is going to drop support for gcc3, but I'm pretty sure
they will. And since this is necessary for Linux/ppc anyway, why not
check if it works on all platforms?
The performance hit (3% without kqemu as Michael measured) you get
on i386 by using gcc4 does not affect ppc. So the only thing you get
is more intelligent optimization, which might even make the gcc4
version faster.