Re: [RFC PATCH] deprecation: don't enable TCG plugins by default on 32 bit hosts

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 5/9/24 13:11, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The existing plugins already liberally use host pointer stuffing for
> passing user data which will fail when doing 64 bit guests on 32 bit
> hosts. We should discourage this by officially deprecating support and
> adding another nail to the 32 bit host coffin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>   configure                 | 11 ++++++++++-
>   2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


> @@ -480,11 +485,13 @@ case "$cpu" in
>   
>     riscv32 | riscv64)

We need to split the riscv64 case.

>       host_arch=riscv
> +    host_bits=32
>       linux_arch=riscv
>       ;;