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Am Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:55:16 +0000
schrieb Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>: 

> The problems of the gcc backend to qemu have already been discussed
> extensively on this list.  Stealing 3+ registers from gcc on x86 really
> is asking for trouble, and I believe it is generally understood that the
> best long term solution is to move to a self-contained back end that 
> does not use gcc for dynamic code generation.

An innocent question: Would _not_ stealing 3 registers be a short term option?
I am still quite new to qemu (as a user, even) so I don't really know anything
about the dynamic code generation and what affects qemu performance anyway.


Thomas.