Il 16/11/2012 19:18, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 16 November 2012 17:35, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Weak symbols were a nice idea, but they turned out not to be a good one.
>> Toolchain support is just too sparse, in particular llvm-gcc is totally
>> broken.
>>
>> This patch uses a surprisingly low-tech approach: a static library.
>> Symbols in a static library are always overridden by symbols in an
>> object file.  Furthermore, if you place each function in a separate
>> source file, object files for unused functions will not be taken in.
>> This means that each function can use all the dependencies that it needs
>> (especially QAPI stuff such as error_setg).
>>
>> Thus, all stubs are placed in separate object files and put together in
>> a static library.  The library then is linked to all programs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> 
> This builds and runs OK on Linux and MacOS X.
> (nb: only system and usermode executables tested, not the standalone
> utility executables like qemu-ga).
> 
> Tested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>

I did some Windows testing, too.  Blue, can you apply?

Paolo

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