Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG debugging improvements

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 11/17/08, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> I'd just applied changes that enforce type size checking for TCG variables
>  when DEBUG_TCGV is defined. This should help avoid subtle bugs due to
>  64/32-bit mismatches.
>
>  I fixed a few bugs in the process, but it's mostly mechanical changes.  TCGv
>  is target_ulong sized, so the majority of code remains unchanged.  Explicit
>  sizes are typically only required when working with different sized ops, or
>  floating point.
>
>  One of the main side-effects of this is that helper functions now need to be
>  declared properly.  Previously we sort-of did this, but not consistently
>  enough to enforce types.  With the exception of the SSE/MMX ops (which are
>  table driven and use messy typecasts) we should be able to detect
>  inconsistencies between the code generator and the helper function
>  implementations.
>
>  There should be no functional changes.  I've tested what I can, but please
>  test your favourite host/target.

PPC is broken. This used to print something, now it doesn't:
./qemu-system-ppc -L ./pc-bios/ -hda /dev/null

Sparc32 and Sparc64 are fine, thanks for the fixes.