Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add gcc 4.0 support

2006-03-31 Thread John Davidorff Pell
On 29 Mar 2006, at 11:33, Paul Brook wrote: Also, the gcc -O2 option is more than the sum of the other options it enables. That, IMHO, is a bug. Of course, its not Qemu's bug. :-) JP -- "The New York Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the peop

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add gcc 4.0 support

2006-03-29 Thread John Davidorff Pell
9 Mar 2006, at 01:59, Thiemo Seufer wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:26:27PM -0800, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be better to specifically request that feature of gcc, with one of its myriad options, rather than forcing a rather large optimization sweep? I'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add gcc 4.0 support

2006-03-28 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be better to specifically request that feature of gcc, with one of its myriad options, rather than forcing a rather large optimization sweep? I'm sure that -O2 is good generally, but using it as a kludge to get at one of the many things that it enables seems li

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU extension

2005-05-31 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Well, it turns out I am totally confused. I checked online and -- lo and behold -- the kqemu tar is just an elf binary :-( I stand corrected (by myself) JP On 31 May 2005, at 00:00, John Davidorff Pell wrote: Is kQemu closed source? I thought it was just not a GPL compatible license

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU extension

2005-05-31 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Is kQemu closed source? I thought it was just not a GPL compatible license. Don't you have to build it with your qemu tree?? If you get the source code from a freely downloadable archive, then its most certainly not closed source... Or maybe I'm totally confused and kQemu is binary-only. :-