On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:08, Nigel Horne wrote: > Stuart Brady wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:08:56AM +0100, Nigel Horne wrote: > >> Can qemu emulate 16-bit machines (286?)? > > > > None that I'm aware of. Is there any particular need for 286 emulation? > > To test my code on machines where sizeof(int) == sizeof(short), and > sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
Modern x86 are backwards compatible[*], so you should be able to do that anyway. Paul [*] There are a few corner cases, but these are only likely to effect hand-written asm doing evil things. There's probably more difference between qemu and real hardware than 286 and i386 real mode.
