Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 02/34] tcg+qom: QOMify core CPU defintions

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/05/2015 12:36, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > Right.  My point was that these functions are not polymorphic.  Each
> > call to these should know exactly which function to call.
> > 
> > cputlb.c, cpu-exec.c and parts of translate-all.c should be the moral
> > equivalent of C++ templates.  I wouldn't mind switching to C++, but if
> > we want to make them polymorphic we should do it at compile time through
> > multiple compilation and/or inclusion from target-*.
> 
> I think we got more concrete than that, possibly on IRC only? I believe
> #include'ing cputlb.c from some target-* file was one of your proposed
> solutions?

Yes (but Peter is making more functions virtual, so he'd have to do the
same also for cpu-exec.c and parts of translate-all.c).

> And splitting some of the inline functions that I was getting
> rid of into some new (or existing?) file?

If I remember correctly, another solution could be to keep the virtual
functions, but ensure that all the hot paths were "devirtualizing" them
and calling the CPU-specific function directly.

Paolo