Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use proper term in TCG README

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:33:01AM +0800, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) wrote:
>   In TCG, "target" means the host architecture for which TCG generates the
> code. Using "guest" rather than "target" to make the document more consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Wei-Ren <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tcg/README | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tcg/README b/tcg/README
> index 934e7af..22174c0 100644
> --- a/tcg/README
> +++ b/tcg/README
> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ double-word product T0.  The later is returned in two 
> single-word outputs.
>  
>  Similar to mulu2, except the two inputs T1 and T2 are signed.
>  
> -********* 64-bit target on 32-bit host support
> +********* 64-bit guest on 32-bit host support
>  
>  The following opcodes are internal to TCG.  Thus they are to be implemented 
> by
>  32-bit host code generators, but are not to be emitted by guest translators.

Review from TCG experts please.

It seems we have multiple meanings for "target" (e.g. ./configure
--target-list= does not mean "the host architecture for which TCG
generates code"), if this is really the way TCG uses the term then fine.

Stefan