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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Patch Tracking" <patches@linaro.org>,
	"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	"Claudio Fontana" <claudio.fontana@linaro.org>,
	"Aurélien Jarno" <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Christoffer Dall" <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:19:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CD7AA5.3070106@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_50pSCEbd3u_4zpZp5F3P0ybGAOXzpQ75rZDdVk3wiGA@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/08/2014 04:31 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 January 2014 14:51, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Is there an argument for making this an optional component. It would be
>> useful to know how many users care about having access to the target
>> assembly. Certainly I'm only looking at it while developing TCG code.
> If you really don't want the dep you can configure with '--cxx=', and then
> we'll fall back to "no C++ compiler, don't build C++-only bits".
>
> One of my aims here is that I don't particularly want the A64
> translator to be a second class citizen in terms of what features
> it supports. Debug logs are generally useful (which is why they're
> present) and being able to have end users grab a debug log is
> nice for tracking down issues sometimes.

It's also very useful to just be able to do "x /i $pc" on the qemu 
monitor. So yes, a working disassembler is defintiely a must have.


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-08 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-07 16:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] rules.mak: Support .cc as a C++ source file suffix Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] rules.mak: Link with C++ if we have a C++ compiler Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] disas: add libvixl source code for AArch64 A64 disassembler Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] disas: Implement disassembly output for A64 Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 22:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] disas: add libvixl to support A64 disassembly Stefan Weil
2014-01-07 23:00   ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-08  6:55     ` Stefan Weil
2014-01-08 10:07       ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-07 22:53 ` Stefan Weil
2014-01-08 14:51   ` Alex Bennée
2014-01-08 15:31     ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-08 16:19       ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2014-01-07 23:46 ` Peter Maydell
2014-01-08 14:48   ` Alex Bennée

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