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Commit 65bad6c9 authored by Alex Bennée's avatar Alex Bennée
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docs/emulation: expand warning about semihosting

A surprising feature of calls like SYS_READC is this can cause QEMU to
indefinitely block as there is no handling for EOF.

Clarifies: qemu-project/qemu#1963


Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231120150833.2552739-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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......@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ causing most hypervisors to trap and fault on them.
.. warning::
Semihosting inherently bypasses any isolation there may be between
the guest and the host. As a result a program using semihosting can
happily trash your host system. You should only ever run trusted
code with semihosting enabled.
happily trash your host system. Some semihosting calls (e.g.
``SYS_READC``) can block execution indefinitely. You should only
ever run trusted code with semihosting enabled.
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