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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Bonifazi <stefboombastic@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Changing the content of target cpu registers
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:17:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim9ZLDEQscwcO4hswzz4nJbP-KLnYJ_cU-MYNEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D355D75.6070004@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Stefano Bonifazi
<stefboombastic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>  I am working on qemu-user (qemu-ppc).
> I'd like to edit the values of target registers during the execution. Can I
> do that by simply changing the content of env->gpr[] or do these only
> contain a copy of the values of the registers?
> In this last case, where are the real values of the target registers stored
> so that by modifying them I can alter the behavior of the target code
> execution?

env->gpr is the canonical location, but the translator assigns TCG
variables to them (cpu_gpr[] in translate.c), so GPR contents may be
cached to these. But when helpers are called or the TB finishes,
env->gpr should be valid again.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18  9:29 [Qemu-devel] Changing the content of target cpu registers Stefano Bonifazi
2011-01-18 17:17 ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2011-01-18 18:13   ` Stefano Bonifazi
2011-01-21 22:41     ` Raphaël Lefèvre
2011-01-22 19:35       ` Blue Swirl

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