The x86-64 disassembler is broken

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Mon Jun 11 18:13:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:59:31PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> I think your patch
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-06/msg00241.html
> 
> breaks the x86-64 disassembler. I got

It's quite likely.  I made a number of changes when consolidating the
tables.

> regexp_diff match failure 
> regexp "^[      ]+3d:   50[     ]+pushq[        ]+%rax$"
> line   "  3d:   50                      push   %rax"   

Hmm, that doesn't look like a broken disassembler to me, just a
changed one.  OK, so I should fix the testsuite.  I'll look into it.

Alan



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