On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:44 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > The use of gcc to generate the back end in QEMU's early days was a > > clever way to get the project up and running quickly. But surely > > now it would be better to transition to a handwritten backend, so > > It should be trivial to take the _currently_ generated GCC code for > all the architectures QEMU is commonly built on, and just distribute > that code with the QEMU source. > > Then it would be independent of future changes to GCC. > > I understand a handwritten backend is already being written. But > until a proper one is done, wouldn't that serve as a useful stopgap? > > -- Jamie >
I you poke around in the archives, this idea was raised before (by me, maybe). I think it would work, but I didn't hear a lot of enthusiasm for it. I think it would also open the door for hand-tweaking critical areas for performance. Paul Brook has another take, and the benefit of his is you can look at real life code to see how it will work. -- John. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
