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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] TCI for ARM and other hosts with aligned args
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To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
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On 09/10/2013 02:34 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> For native compilations, TCG_TARGET_CALL_ALIGN_ARGS can be set from
> configure.  Cross compilations cannot set that macro automatically
> (or is there some way to do this?)

I can't think of a way that would be reasonable from configure.

> Should we use this mechanism for all hosts (and move the definitions in
> tcg-target.h to a conditional definition in tcg.h), or should we use it only for TCI?

I'd prefer a common solution, but it's something easy to get wrong
if there are multiple ABIs in play, e.g. PPC32.

Perhaps let's start with just TCI.

> The alpha disassembler does not work on 32 bit hosts,
> therefore debugging is difficult.

It works on i386.  What's your "not working" test case?


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