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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Status of the SH4 / ARM7 emulators
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, Renato Utsch <renatoutsch@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 11/29/2011 01:09 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Then what is your suggestion?
> 
> Point to the middle ?
> 
> IE, positive offsets for the common structure, negative offsets for the architecture defined ones.

Well, Andreas wants to put the common data at the beginning, which would
mean vice versa -- negative for common and positive for arch.

Which sounds like it would actually work out well, since ARM only has
small positive offsets for address formation.


r~