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2) Definitions
+TCG receives RISC-like "TCG ops" and performs some optimizations on them,
+including liveness analysis and trivial constant expression
+evaluation. TCG ops are then implemented in the host CPU back end,
+also known as the TCG "target".
+
The TCG "target" is the architecture for which we generate the
code. It is of course not the same as the "target" of QEMU which is
the emulated architecture. As TCG started as a generic C backend used