[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Cocoa: ppc64 host support

[Alexander Graf]

On 06.12.2009, at 14:23, Andreas Färber wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> Am 06.12.2009 um 14:02 schrieb Alexander Graf:
> 
>> 
>> On 06.12.2009, at 14:00, Andreas Faerber wrote:
>> 
>>> Fix integer usage in the Cocoa backend: NSInteger is long on LP64.
>>> 
>>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSView_Class/Reference/NSView.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000014-BBCFHHCD
>>> 
>>> This makes the graphical display show up on a ppc64 host.
>> 
>> Interesting! Unfortunately I don't have a PPC64 Apple machine handy, so I 
>> can't test it.
> 
> I cc'ed you so that you could check your earlier x86_64 Mac patch series, if 
> you care. I don't have an x86_64 Mac at hands myself.

Oh I see, I'll test it later today or tomorrow.

> Btw I'll be looking into bringing the Cocoa frontend on par with SDL, namely 
> closing the app when closing the window and not creating the window in 
> -nographic mode. That's awful when debugging!

I agree. I did a patch for that once - might be worth searching the ML for 
that. Basically it searched the args for a "-nographic" parameter. Pretty 
hacky, but at least it worked.

Alex