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Re: [RFA]: opcodes / i386 disassembler
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA]: opcodes / i386 disassembler
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:58:27 +1000 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Would the following be acceptable? Assuming I provided an
> suitable ChangeLog entry?
Yes. Please check it in. The x86 instruction set has many of these cases
where there's more than one encoding of an instruction. Some people even
used this feature to store covert messages in code - eg. to brand code as
being produced by a certain assembler.
Alan Modra
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