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Re: [Qemu-devel] [6967] Temporary workaround for ppc on ppc
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malc |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [6967] Temporary workaround for ppc on ppc |
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Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:03:39 +0400 (MSD) |
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 4/2/09, malc <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Revision: 6967
> > http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6967
> > Author: malc
> > Date: 2009-04-02 01:16:39 +0000 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009)
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > Temporary workaround for ppc on ppc
> >
> > target-ppc/translate.c puts values of type opcode_t into .opcodes
> > section, using GCC extension to do so, and hoping that this will make
> > them appear contiguously and in the source order in the resulting
> > executable. This assumption is not safe and is known to be violated
> > with certain versions of GCC, certain flags passed to it and on
> > certain platforms (gcc 4.3.0, -O and PPC/PPC64 for instance)
>
> I've always wondered if the section hack was a very clever one or too
> clever one, this makes it clear.
>
> The section uses could be removed by moving the opcode tables towards
There are _no_ opcode tables that's why it fails. The code just does
opcode_t in_section(.opcodes) start;
<lots of opcode_t>;
opcode_t in_section(.opcodes) end;
And then scans from &start to &end.
The only way, that i know of, to make that work is to indeed put
things into a table (an array).
> the end of file and making the handler functions use normal C
> declarations or aided with a macro. That separates the function and
> its table entry a lot, but I guess we don't want to use the #include
> trick this time?
I think PPC's translate.c should be just split and massaged a lot.
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