From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVT02-00088W-J5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:43:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVT01-00085q-5B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:43:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVT00-00085d-VM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:43:09 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVSxs-0002io-3I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:40:56 -0400 Message-ID: <46067BD5.1050609@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:40:37 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC/experimental patch] qemu (x86_64 on x86_64 -no-kqemu) compiles with gcc4 and works References: <200703241850.03116.axel.zeuner@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200703241850.03116.axel.zeuner@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Axel Zeuner wrote: > A full featured converter (cvtasm) has a lot of dependencies: it has to > support all hosts (M) (with all assembler dialects M') and all targets N, > i.e. in the worst case one would end with M'x N variants of it, or M x N if > one supports only one assembler dialect per host. It is clear, that the > number of variants is one of the biggest disadvantages of such an approach. > Perhaps a mixed approach can be made for gradual conversion: for combinations where cvtasm has been written, use that. Where that's still to be done, have dyngen generate call instructions to the ops instead of pasting the ops text directly. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function