Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: fix for random Qemu crashes

[Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 17:06 +0200, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
> J. Mayer kirjoitti:
> > Some may have experienced of having some Qemu builds crashing,
> > apparently at random places, but in a reproducable way.
> > I found one reason for this crashes: it appears that with the growth of
> > the op.c file, there may be cases where we could reach the inlining
> > limits of gcc. In such a case, gcc would not inline some declared
> > "inline" function but would emit a call and provide a separate function.
> > Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in op.o context as it will
> > slowdown the emulation and because the call is likely to break the
> > specific compilation rules (ie reserved registers) used while compiling
> > op.o
> 
> Does -winline give a warning when this happens?

I did not check this, but getting a warning won't help us a lot. The
generated Qemu executable would still crash.

-- 
Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>