Re: [Qemu-devel] All the world's a VAX! - reloaded

2007-05-10 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: [...] P.S. No, I don't have a patch, because what I did locally does not fix the problem. Once we change #if defined(__linux__) to #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__DARWIN__) we will in no time have to add || defined(__FreeB

Re: [Qemu-devel] All the world's a VAX! - reloaded

2007-05-09 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Patrick, On Wed, 9 May 2007, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Boys and girls, this code should run without modification on > _any_ sufficiently recent variant of Unix. _Unix_. Even if you sound like a troll, I am heavily reminded of another widespread saying here: patches welcome. Talk is cheap,

Re: [Qemu-devel] All the world's a VAX! - reloaded

2007-05-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : P.S. No, I don't have a patch, because what I did locally does : not fix the problem. Once we change : : #if defined(__linux__) : to : #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__DARWI

[Qemu-devel] All the world's a VAX! - reloaded

2007-05-09 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! Those of you who are old enough will remember that certain kinds of implicit assumptions in programming used to raise the outcry: All the world's a VAX! E.g. taking for granted that a pointer will always fit into an integer and vice versa. After trying Qemu for the first time and