On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:55:18PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Sam King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Also, what is the state of the binary re-writing. I did some > > measurements and looked through the source, it appears that ALL > > instructions are being emulated. Is this true? I tried running the > > dt version, and it was even slower than the 100% emulation vm. > > Has anyone looked at valgrind: <http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/>? > > It's a memory-misuse tool (like many others). The interesting bit is > that it works by emulating x86 code (specifically for x86 GNU/Linux, > although other x86 OS's might be possible). > > So it strikes me that it's a working (GNU GPL) x86 emulator, somewhat > tailored to running things in a GNU/Linux environment. And it works > reasonably acceptably, too. Even if it's not directly usable code, > there ought to be things that could be stolen (presuming that GNU GPL > code is acceptable for plex86; I've forgotten what license was > intended).
It's actually the LPGL. Personally I think the GPL with an exception for the host OS would be better, but others have problems with that. I don't really care much which one is used, as you can turn the LGPL into the GPL at any time. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
