From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add support for choosing disassembler cpu in GDB for POWER.
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 22:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161003222527.GO4877@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aff72146-3dc5-50ec-3382-fc7a6c917cb1@vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 03:25:15PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 9/30/16 11:19 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > The implementation in the patch does appear to be a bit ad-hoc, however :-)
> > Why would we want to pass that information via a new global variable, if
> > there is already an element "disassembler_options" in the struct
> > disassemble_info that GDB passes to bfd? See e.g. i386_print_insn.
>
> Yes, I saw that code. The problem is that same solution won't work for
> us, since print_insn_*() doesn't look at info->disassembler_options
> at all.
Somewhere in gdb you must be calling disassemble_init_for_target.
Why can't you call that again after setting the cpu (in struct
disassemble_info disassembler_options)?
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-30 2:14 Peter Bergner
2016-09-30 17:55 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-03 20:25 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-03 22:25 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2016-10-06 3:00 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-06 4:44 ` Alan Modra
2016-10-06 9:52 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-06 19:26 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-07 19:21 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-07 21:01 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-08 14:39 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-10 23:28 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-12 8:08 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-12 10:46 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 0:09 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-11 18:49 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-12 8:25 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-27 0:04 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-27 9:40 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-28 13:47 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-28 14:10 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-28 14:24 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-28 14:30 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-28 14:53 ` Peter Bergner
2016-11-03 11:01 ` Pedro Alves
2016-11-03 15:02 ` Peter Bergner
2016-11-03 15:06 ` Peter Bergner
2016-11-03 16:41 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-11-03 16:49 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-28 12:32 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-28 13:45 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-28 14:15 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-10-28 15:02 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-28 18:47 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-11-02 23:28 ` Peter Bergner
2016-10-12 19:35 ` Pedro Alves
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