Re: [Qemu-devel] AMD64 Gentoo needs help

[Paul Brook]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 21:21, Martin Garton wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, jmf wrote:
> > I treid that and before the segfault below happen, now a black window
> > appears and dissappears very quickly
>
> I believe the problem is that qemu is not 64bit clean code because it does
> things like casting from pointers to ints and back which is okay when they
> are the same size (ie, on x86) but not when a pointer is twice as long as
> an int (ie, on amd64) You will have seen warnings about this when
> compiling.

Doesn't Gentoo use gcc3.4?
If so I'd guess it's more likely that this is the problem. gcc3.4 performs 
optimizations that break assumptions in the dyngen code.

Paul