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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:54:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704151354.47567.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46221E0F.6050208@bandsman.co.uk>

> > Modern x86 are backwards compatible[*], so you should be able to do that
> > anyway.
>
> Care to share with us how I do that? Is it an option to gcc?

gcc does not support 16-bit mode.

My point is that pretty much anything that runs on a 286 should also run on 
any subsequent x86 processor. If you want to test 16-bit x86 software/systems 
you don't need an actual 286. A 386 is just as good for almost all purposes.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-15 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-15 10:08 [Qemu-devel] Report Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 11:33 ` [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation Stuart Brady
2007-04-15 11:42   ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 12:08   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 12:35     ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 12:43       ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 12:54         ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-04-15 12:56           ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:31             ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 13:46               ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:51                 ` Paul Brook
2007-04-15 13:54                   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 19:55                 ` Natalia Portillo
2007-04-16 23:35                   ` Derek Fawcus
2007-04-16 23:57                     ` Natalia Portillo
2007-04-15 12:40     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-15 12:46       ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 13:30         ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-17 13:55     ` Todd T. Fries
2007-04-15 12:46 ` [Qemu-devel] Report Thiemo Seufer
2007-04-15 14:08   ` Nigel Horne
2007-04-15 16:37     ` Thiemo Seufer

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