Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:19:23 +0200 | | From | Avi Kivity <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm howto |
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Magnus Damm wrote: >> >> You need a newer binutils. I'm using binutils-2.16.91.0.6 (gotta love >> that version number), shipped with Fedora Core 5. > > The VT-extensions added by Intel and AMD only adds a limited number of > instructions each. If you want to be user friendly it might be a good > idea to implement these instructions as macros. I'm pretty sure > VT-extension support in Xen works with my old binutils version. >
Yes, Xen uses macros.
I figured a newish machine will have a newish binutils. Looks like I was wrong. I don't like uglifying the code, but if many users hit this, there won't be much of a choice.
[A minor problem with macros is that you can't let gcc choose the registers for you with instructions that have operands]
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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