Re: [Qemu-devel] get_func() hangs with gcc 3.4.2 on MinGW and WinXP host

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:37:53AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jim C. Brown wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is due to a change in the way gcc compiles code ... 3.4.0 may work,
>>>but later versions will cause functions to return prematurely (due to the way
>>>qemu handles translated blocks). I suggested that a fix for this would be to
>>>use function pointer calls instead of directly chaining machine code, but
>>>apparently this is too slow to make qemu usable.
>>
>>The Forth way ;-)
>>...
> 
> 
> How about instead post-processing the .s, replacing the rets with jumps
> to the end of the function?  Of course this part would be architecture
> dependant (different assembler syntax), but other parts of qemu
> are that as well, right?

I don't exclude the possibility of using a hand coded code generator. It 
should be possible to do the transition progressively. The first 
candidates could be the code to handle memory access, constant stores 
and helper calls.

Fabrice.