From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgDC-0005zY-VS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:17:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgDC-0005zI-By for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:17:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33572 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtgDB-0005zC-Oc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:17:37 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.171]:8718) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KtgDB-0000ir-Ef for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:17:37 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1233872wfd.4 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <761ea48b0810250317l3dbc33beg7b0aa61ca0c7511e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:17:36 +0200 From: "Laurent Desnogues" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Update disassembler files from latest binutils In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810250106.50402.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: > > Alternatively we could develop new disassemblers, for example based on > translate.c code (LGPL v2 for Sparc). The main issue with that approach is that it may result in reproducing translate bugs in the disassembler, and I am sure the target I am familiar with has such bugs. On the other hand if one uses translate to write a disassembler and does an exhaustive disassembly and compares the result with objdump output then both qemu and binutils (which also contains holes for the ARM target, at least last time I checked) will benefit. Laurent