From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A4DDa-0002kr-47 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:38:38 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A4DD3-0002ZU-8h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:38:36 -0400 Received: from [216.101.162.242] (helo=pizda.ninka.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A4DD2-0002ZM-MZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:38:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:33:57 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] sparc32 compile on sparc64? Message-Id: <20030929223357.54c39554.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: jpbostic@operations.ocs.ou.edu On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Jared P Bostic wrote: > I have been watching the development of QEMU and it looks wonderful. > Currently, I'm trying out Debian on a sun4u box (4x400 E3500). Just > for kicks, I tried compiling the 0.4.3 code with no success - was > expecting that per your web pages, but am curious about the following. gcc should be generating 32-bit sparc applications by default unless you are running the most recent unstable debian dist. Regardless, even if you are, building from an environment create by "sparc32 /bin/sh" will guarentee that you'll get 32-bit apps. And no it won't be slower than the 64-bit sparc app, it'll likely be much faster.