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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:34 +0700
From: "Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How TCG works?
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Hi

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Jun Koi <junkoi2004@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Could somebody explain a bit on how TCG works? Is it true that now we
>  translate the target CPU insns to TCG, then TCG to host insns in the
>  final step?
>
>  TCG is a backend of C compiler (gcc?), so how C compiler employs it?

Start reading http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/qemu/tcg/README?revision=1.4&root=qemu&view=markup

by in general, you're right IMHO. TCG itself is the compiler...

regards,

Mulyadi.