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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jim C. Brown wrote:

> Originally, the op_* functions for qemu were written so that they would
> have the machine code and then the rets at the very end of the function.
> qemu could then just chain them together by stripping the rets.
>
> gcc now rearranges the generated code around, and reserves the right to
> stick in extra rets any place it wants, not just the very end, which
> makes them very hard to strip off.

IIRC there was a flag to gcc to prevent just this.

Ciao,
Dscho