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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] disas: add libvixl to support A64
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On 01/08/2014 04:31 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 January 2014 14:51, Alex Benn=C3=A9e <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrot=
e:
>> Is there an argument for making this an optional component. It would b=
e
>> 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=3D', 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=20
monitor. So yes, a working disassembler is defintiely a must have.


Alex