Re: [PATCH 15/33] target/ppc: Implement Vector Insert from GPR using GPR index insns

[Richard Henderson]

On 10/23/21 3:12 AM, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> You mentioning target_ulong reminded me a question I had. Currently we have 
> qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-ppc64 but the latter includes all machines of the former 
> too so you could run for example sam460ex with qemu-system-ppc64 (except mac99 which 
> behaves differently based on which executable it's part of but you could use mac99 -cpu G4 
> with qemu-system-ppc64 as well). But isn't target_ulong different in these executables and 
> could that cause a problem with this? I've always used qemu-system-ppc for 32 bit machines 
> but we could have one just executable for all machines if there's no need for both.

Yes, we can, and probably should, have one executable for all PPC system emulation.  RISCV 
is actively working toward that, and I think it would be fairly easy for ARM and x86 to 
follow.

It's something relatively easy to do that reduces the size of the test matrix.


r~