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Re: [patch] Disassembly improvements

On 10/16/2013 09:16 AM, Doug Evans wrote:

  > If I were to try one, I think it would be along the lines of
  > a new TARGET_OBJECT_DISASM_MEMORY, and somehow pass more info down
  > the target_xfer interface so that the the core memory reading code
  > handles the caching.  Probably, that'd be done with a new pair of
  > 'begin/end code caching' functions that would be called at the
  > appropriate places.  The new code in dis_asm_read_memory would
  > then be pushed to target.c, close to where stack cache is handled.

How hard would it be to do that now?
AFAICS, it is not hard. We've already had TARGET_OBJECT_STACK_MEMORY, so it is straightforward to add TARGET_OBJECT_CODE_MEMORY, and disas and skip_prologue can use it. 

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