Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: fix for random Qemu crashes

[Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Jocelyn Mayer kirjoitti:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 17:06 +0200, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
>> J. Mayer kirjoitti:
>>> Some may have experienced of having some Qemu builds crashing,
>>> apparently at random places, but in a reproducable way.
>>> I found one reason for this crashes: it appears that with the growth of
>>> the op.c file, there may be cases where we could reach the inlining
>>> limits of gcc. In such a case, gcc would not inline some declared
>>> "inline" function but would emit a call and provide a separate function.
>>> Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in op.o context as it will
>>> slowdown the emulation and because the call is likely to break the
>>> specific compilation rules (ie reserved registers) used while compiling
>>> op.o
>> Does -winline give a warning when this happens?
> 
> I did not check this, but getting a warning won't help us a lot. The
> generated Qemu executable would still crash.

But a warning makes the problem more noticable. I tried -Winline and it 
does give warnings, but I'm not sure whether I'm hitting the same 
behaviour you see. I silenced the lot with 
--param-max-inline-insns-single=4000

-- Heikki Lindholm