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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -tip 00/16] in-kernel x86 disassember
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On 04/02/2012 12:04 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Perf could use 
> a programmatic, librarized disassembler for its assembly 
> annotation code.

BTW, it should be pretty trivial to librarize the disassembler from
NASM.  Even more so, I think this might have already been done with Yasm.

	-hpa