Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC qom-cpu 23/41] target-xtensa: Change gen_intermediate_code_internal() arg to XtensaCPU

[Richard Henderson]

On 07/01/2013 10:51 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> I wonder, all targets seem to implement the same pattern of passing a
> hard-coded bool argument to their internal function.
> 
> Is there any reason not to have translate-all.c call the function with
> that true/false directly?

The idea is to avoid runtime checks for the rare search_pc case.

Instead we pass constants to inline functions and transform what would be
runtime checks into compile-time optimized code paths.



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