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From: Tavis Ormandy via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: How to display instructions around the current instuction?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:38:05 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rv1h5t$8so$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8h86gwc.fsf@igel.home>

On 2021-01-28, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Jan 28 2021, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> There could be a syntax to go back a given number of instructions.
>
> How do you know how long each instruction is?
>

I just learned about the x/-5i syntax and had the same question. I
didn't look at the code but it does seem to know where the boundaries
are (e.g. if you start in the middle of an instruction).

I guess it must disassemble forward from a previous known location to
learn all the boundaries first?

Tavis.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-29 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 23:12 Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28  8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-28 17:08   ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 18:44     ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-29 17:38       ` Tavis Ormandy via Gdb [this message]
2021-01-28  9:19 ` Stefan Puiu via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:06   ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:26     ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:37       ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:41         ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb
2021-01-29  2:07           ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-29  2:22             ` Sterling Augustine via Gdb
2021-01-29  2:32               ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-29  2:47                 ` Sterling Augustine via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:57         ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2021-01-28 18:00     ` Stefan Puiu via Gdb
2021-01-29  2:15       ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 13:11 ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb
2021-01-28 16:50   ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 16:53     ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:16       ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:16         ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb
2021-01-28 17:00     ` Sterling Augustine via Gdb
     [not found]       ` <CAGOmfbFh+6AJZFsDP8nFH1bs6kntC4khO+YmPkn3LUfcLAspZw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-28 17:45         ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-28 18:27 ` Pedro Alves
2021-01-29  1:58   ` Peng Yu via Gdb
2021-01-29  7:18     ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb

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