Re: objdump -M for x86

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

> Applying to mainline.  Note to gdb people: Some backwards compatibility
> stuff can be removed when i386-tdep.c and x86-64-tdep are updated to use
> the new (old!) print_insn_i386.
> 
> binutils/ChangeLog
> 	* doc/binutils.texi (objdump): Document x86 -M options.
> include/ChangeLog
>  	* dis-asm.h (print_insn_i386): Declare.
> opcodes/ChangeLog
> 	* disassemble.c (disassembler): Call print_insn_i386.
> 	* i386-dis.c (SUFFIX_ALWAYS): Define.
> 	(struct dis_private): Add orig_sizeflag.
> 	(print_insn_i386): Make it a wrapper, calling..
> 	(print_insn): ..The old body of print_insn_i386.  Avoid longjmp
> 	warning without using volatile by moving orig_sizeflag to priv,
> 	and removing inbuf.  Parse disassembler_options.
> 	(print_insn_i386_att, print_insn_i386_intel): Move initialisation
> 	code to print_insn.
> 	(putop): Remove #ifdef SUFFIX_ALWAYS.
> 

Hmm, I was wondering what you were talking about until I found this:

> +  for (p = info->disassembler_options; p != NULL; )
> +    {
> +      if (strncmp (p, "x86_64", 6) == 0)
> +	{
> +	  mode_64bit = 1;
> +	  priv.orig_sizeflag = AFLAG | DFLAG;
> +	}
> +      else if (strncmp (p, "i386", 4) == 0)
> +	{
> +	  mode_64bit = 0;
> +	  priv.orig_sizeflag = AFLAG | DFLAG;
> +	}
> +      else if (strncmp (p, "i8086", 5) == 0)
> +	{
> +	  mode_64bit = 0;
> +	  priv.orig_sizeflag = 0;
> +	}
> +      else if (strncmp (p, "intel", 5) == 0)
> +	{
> +	  intel_syntax = 1;
> +	}
> +      else if (strncmp (p, "att", 3) == 0)
> +	{
> +	  intel_syntax = 0;
> +	}
> 

(x86-64?)

Thanks!

Next problem ... If I understand things correctly, the set of possible 
options, for a given ISA family, is finite.  Could that finite list be 
made available via a published interface?  That way GDB could 
incorporate them into its CLI so that things like ``set 
disassembly-options <tab>'' worked.

To get the feel for what I'm talking about check gdb/arm-tdep.c which 
queries opcodes for the ARM register naming conventions.

enjoy,
Andrew