On 22 June 2018 at 20:09, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > ... but I really wonder why this function got so popular in the hw/ > folder. Printing a dump of all CPU states does not make much sense in > most of the cases (which are really not directly related to CPU states). > So yes, we should try to slowly get rid of hw_error() these days!
Maybe the idea was that if your guest accesses a bogus register and QEMU falls over, a guest CPU register dump might help in figuring out where in the guest that happened. thanks -- PMM