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Re: disassembly options
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:40:48PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> I think that even 80% might be a bit optimistic. Maybe one approach would be
> to not display this information when performing a static analysis (ie via
> objdump -d) but instead to provide it when performing a disassembly for a third
> party which can provide dynamic analysis. ie I am thinking of GDB here, using
> the opcodes library to provide a disassembly. If the opcodes library provided
> a new API function to map memory addresses to mmr register names, then GDB
> could choose to display the mmr name as a comment when it is displaying a line
> of disassembly. Since GDB would have access to the actual register values, it
> could be sure of getting the correct mmr name.
A lot of the time it doesn't; it's disassembling some other code
rather than the current code. It would be able to sometimes, though.
Also GDB already has XML support.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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