From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:20:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610231320.08914.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56d259a00610230116p33e13e32i9b82f1e8f0871f27@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 23 October 2006 09:16, Martin Guy wrote:
> > Now, gcc4 can produce code with several return instructions (with no
> > option to turn that of, as far as I understand). You cannot cut them out,
> > and therefore you cannot chain the simple functions.
>
> ...unless you also map return instructions within the generated
> functions into branches to the soon-to-be-dropped final "return"? Not
> that I know anything about qemu internals mind u...
That's exactly what my gcc4 hacks do.
It gets complicated because a x86 uses variable length insn encodings so you
don't know where insn boundaries are, and a jmp instruction is larger than a
ret instruction so it's not always possible to do a straight replacement.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 18:53 [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4 K. Richard Pixley
2006-10-22 22:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-23 8:16 ` Martin Guy
2006-10-23 12:20 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-10-23 13:59 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 14:10 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-23 14:28 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 14:31 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-23 14:35 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 17:41 ` K. Richard Pixley
2006-10-23 17:58 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-23 18:04 ` K. Richard Pixley
2006-10-23 18:20 ` Laurent Desnogues
2006-10-23 18:37 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-24 23:39 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-25 0:24 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-25 19:39 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-26 18:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-31 16:53 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-31 19:02 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-31 20:41 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-31 22:08 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-31 22:31 ` Laurent Desnogues
2006-10-31 23:00 ` Paul Brook
2006-11-01 0:00 ` Rob Landley
2006-11-01 0:29 ` Paul Brook
2006-11-01 1:51 ` Rob Landley
2006-11-01 3:22 ` Paul Brook
2006-11-01 16:34 ` Rob Landley
2006-11-01 17:01 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-31 23:17 ` Rob Landley
2006-11-01 0:01 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-30 4:35 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-30 14:56 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-30 16:31 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-30 16:50 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-30 22:54 ` Stephen Torri
2006-10-30 23:13 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-23 1:27 ` Rob Landley
2006-10-23 1:44 ` Paul Brook
2006-10-23 1:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-10-23 17:53 ` K. Richard Pixley
2006-10-23 18:08 ` Rob Landley
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