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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu vs gcc4
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:06 +0000
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On Monday 30 October 2006 04:35, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 23 October 2006 1:58 pm, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Although, all told, it would seem to me that what might be called for
> > > here is a new gcc target.  A gcc target specifically for generating
> > > qemu code.  That would just simply generate whatever qemu wanted for
> > > function postamble.
> >
> > Better to just teach qemu how to generate code.
> > In fact I've already done most of the infrastructure (and a fair amount
> > of the legwork) for this. The only major missing function is code to do
> > softmmu load/store ops.
> > https://nowt.dyndns.org/
>
> So given that one of the reasons for doing this would be getting away from
> depending on specific and increasily out of date versions of gcc to build
> the thing, what would be involved in getting this version to build under
> gcc-4.x?

Should work pretty much out the box. Obviously if you build anything other 
than m68k then all bets are off.

Paul