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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:35:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704151335.05068.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462215D9.5020101@bandsman.co.uk>

On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:08, Nigel Horne wrote:
> Stuart Brady wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:08:56AM +0100, Nigel Horne wrote:
> >> Can qemu emulate 16-bit machines (286?)?
> >
> > None that I'm aware of.  Is there any particular need for 286 emulation?
>
> To test my code on machines where sizeof(int) == sizeof(short), and
> sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).

Modern x86 are backwards compatible[*], so you should be able to do that 
anyway.

Paul

[*] There are a few corner cases, but these are only likely to effect 
hand-written asm doing evil things. There's probably more difference between 
qemu and real hardware than 286 and i386 real mode.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-15 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-15 10:08 [Qemu-devel] Report Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 11:33 ` [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation Stuart Brady
2007-04-15 11:42   ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 12:08   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 12:35     ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-04-15 12:43       ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 12:54         ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 12:56           ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:31             ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 13:46               ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:51                 ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 13:54                   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 19:55                 ` Natalia Portillo
2007-04-16 23:35                   ` Derek Fawcus
2007-04-16 23:57                     ` Natalia Portillo
2007-04-15 12:40     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-15 12:46       ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:30         ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-17 13:55     ` Todd T. Fries
2007-04-15 12:46 ` [Qemu-devel] Report Thiemo Seufer
2007-04-15 14:08   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 16:37     ` Thiemo Seufer

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