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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: mrm94040@yahoo.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Disassembler location
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:56:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb7c5d11-f358-4680-9418-cbb8d596e943@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <709543045.677058.1720634520917@mail.yahoo.com>

On 7/10/24 11:02, Michael Morrell wrote:
> I'm working on a port to a new architecture and was noticing a discrepancy in where the disassembler code lives.  There is a file "target/<arch>/disas.c" for 4 architectures (avr, loongarch, openrisc, and rx), but a file "disas/<arch>.c" for 14 architectures (if I counted right).  It seems the 4 architectures using "target/<arch>/disas.c" are more recently added so I was wondering if that is now the preferred location.  I couldn't find information on this, but I wasn't sure where to look.
> 
> Any advice?

The older disas/arch.c files come from binutils, prior to the GPLv3 license change.  These 
are generally very old architectures, or not up to date.

The newer target/arch/disas.c are for architectures for which the translator and the 
disassembler share generated code via decodetree.  If you're implementing a new 
architecture from scratch, this is your best choice.

The "best" supported are those with support in system libcapstone.  :-)


r~


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-10 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <709543045.677058.1720634520917.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2024-07-10 18:02 ` Disassembler location Michael Morrell
2024-07-10 21:55   ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-10 21:57     ` Richard Henderson
2024-07-10 21:56   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2024-07-11  7:00     ` Rot127

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