Re: [PATCH] disas: Remove libvixl disassembler

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 6/3/22 19:35, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 03/06/2022 19.26, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> > On 6/3/22 18:42, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > The disassembly via capstone should be superiour to our old vixl
> > > sources nowadays, so let's finally cut this old disassembler out
> > > of the QEMU source tree.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >
> > agreed, one thought: at the time I added this thing, I had to add C++ 
> > compilation support,
> > maybe something we can now drop if there are no more C++ users?
>
> I thought about that, too, but we still have disas/nanomips.cpp left and 
> the Windows-related files in qga/vss-win32/* .

That is pure C++ so it does not need the extra complication of "detect 
whether the C and C++ compiler are ABI-compatible" (typically due to 
different libasan/libtsan implementation between gcc and clang).  So 
it's really just nanoMIPS that's left.

> And I think Paolo was 
> considering to use C++ for coroutine fixes - not sure whether that still 
> is planned, though.

No, that was just an experiment.

Paolo