Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch Submission] QEMU with GCC/Win32

["Steve D. Perkins" <lists@steveperkins.net>]

Paul Brook wrote:

>"sledgehammer" and "nut" spring to mind :-)
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>The attached patch is sufficient to get qemu working on win32 when compiled with gcc3.4. I've successfully booted a knoppix CD inside qemu on a windows host with this patch.
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>The problem was that gcc is choosing inconvenient names for static local variables.  These symbols are never supposed to be seen outside the compiler, so it's allowed to change these at random. The solution is to use explicitly specify the asm name for the variable.
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>Paul
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    Haha... thanks alot Paul!  I now have a big bruise from slapping my 
palm against my forehead... seeing how much more simplified the changes 
could be after I went through all that hassle editing "dyngen.c"!

    Given that QEMU can support the current release of GCC on Windows by 
changing less than 40 lines of code in one file, can we please begin 
discussing the inclusion of these changes in the main codebase?  
Explicitly specifying this one variable name in a preprocessor directive 
doesn't look as if it would affect builds on other platforms, but it 
would be easy enough to test either way.

Steve