Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] New device API

[Andreas Färber]

Am 10.05.2009 um 03:35 schrieb Anthony Liguori:

> malc wrote:
> > -Wl,--whole-archive means QEMU can only be built with GNU ld.
> Does upstream QEMU build with anything else today?

Yes, Sun's gcc uses their own ld, which doesn't support a number of  
GNU options.

And Apple's ld is also worth checking, though I'm not sure if GNU or  
not. I couldn't find that pattern in the man page at least.

With all that discussions about constructors and destructors and  
ordering and so on, aren't you reinventing C++ as an object-oriented  
language? Not that I terribly like it, but it seems simpler and more  
standardized than all those weird GCC extensions currently under  
consideration. It would seem possible to confine object-orientisms to  
hw/ and to keep performance-critical code like TCG pure C. I assume  
you don't like that idea though or someone would've suggested it  
earlier, but I thought I'd mention it for the sake of completeness.

Andreas