Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Add a PowerPC branch detector

[Thiemo Seufer]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > Alexander Graf wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > Is check_ops.sh not enough for debugging micro-ops?
> > > >
> > > Basically it should be. PowerPC branching can be (regex) b..rl. Honestly
> > > I did not know about this script though and as it was not in the
> > > makefile, it did not tell me that something wrong was going on. This
> > > check costs near no time and has to be passed in order to build
> > > successfully.
> > > 
> > > So either check_ops should be fixed (not only brl) and put into the
> > > Makefile.target or a check like this is good to have.
> > 
> > Fixing check_ops is IMO preferable, OTOH I hope the whole problem goes
> > away with the new code generator which is in the works.
> 
> The code generated by that new code generator is substantially slower than 
> what we have right now, so I am not so enthusiastic.

I meant not qops but something Fabrice is working on. Which apparently has
about the same speed.


Thiemo