Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] OSX x86_32 host support

[Mike Kronenberg]

 Alex,

> > You'll find the patches at [1]
> > It's basically an adaption of Pauls, Gwenoles and the Qs gcc4 OS X  
> > x86 patches.
>
> I'd rather go with Michael Matz's gcc4 patches. They look more sane  
> and clean to me than Gwenoles do and I believe the 5% performance  
> hit that goes with them is no real problem, as most people should be  
> using x86_64 nowadays anyway. On OSX this is even less of a problem,  
> as only few Intel Macs are not capable of running x86_64 code  
> (namely the Core Solo and Core Duo generation) and there is no need  
> to run an x86_64 kernel to use x86_64 userspace code.
And I'm one of them, stuck with a Core Duo Macbook pro, which will  
stay for some more time :)
But I do have a Core 2 Duo to test x86-64.

> If by any chance you find the time to do this, please try to get  
> Michael Matz's patches conditional for gcc4 (no performance hit on  
> gcc3) and do the mach-o i386 support separate from that. I believe  
> this way everyone benefits from it and we could finally remove the  
> gcc3 dependency.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex

Yes, I'll do probably a clean patch on top of yours, so that all hosts  
can be satisfied.

Best Mike

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