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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] AVX support for TCG
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To: Nick Renieris <makren67@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 1/5/19 8:33 AM, Nick Renieris wrote:
> I know host ABI's can differ like that, but I don't understand why
> that should matter. Everything (TCG compiler included) is compiled
> with the same way, right? For the host arch.

No, not all of the pieces are compiled the same way.  TCG generates machine
instructions to perform a call from generated code into compiler generated
code.  So TCG needs to know about the host compiler ABI.


r~