Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC, PATCH] Support for loading 32 bit ELF files for 64 bit linux-user

[Thiemo Seufer]

Blue Swirl wrote:
[snip]
> Index: qemu/linux-user/qemu.h
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu.orig/linux-user/qemu.h       2007-10-07 10:50:05.000000000 +0000
> +++ qemu/linux-user/qemu.h    2007-10-07 10:51:09.000000000 +0000
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>          target_ulong    data_offset;
>          char            **host_argv;
>       int             personality;
> +        int             is_64bits;
>  };

I think the 64bit-ness should be part of the personality. In the end,
we need a notion of the ABI in use, not just a specific cpu feature flag.

(MIPS Linux has working support for 4 ABIs, and it could be up to a
dozen different variants counting the unimplemented bits.)


Thiemo