[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] simplify global register save/restore

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 02/13/2010 06:58 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> V9 ABI gives more registers to application use.
>
> Except that glibc uses those---in theory, as I see it, it should be compiled
> with fixed g2 and g3 to leave them to the application.  I get it now.
>
> It may be possible to make the workaround a big less ugly (I'm thinking of
> avoiding #undef/#define by using assembly).  I made a patch (see attachment,
> just FYI), maybe sometime I'll try it using self-virtualized qemu.

Yes, that's much better.