objdump and -z recommendation

Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com
Tue Oct 22 15:23:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Svein" == Svein E Seldal <Svein.Seldal@solidas.com> writes:

  Svein> b) Increase the value of SKIP_ZEROES to, say, 32. Now I
  Svein> persume it is unwanted for me to add a #ifdef section to
  Svein> accomplish this for this specific target in objdump.c. Are
  Svein> there any ways for me to pass this define as an option on the
  Svein> commandline when compiling objdump.c or to put it in a header
  Svein> somewhere. Any suggestions?

The comment near #define SKIP_ZEROES says "The number is arbitrarily
chosen".  Therefore, I think it would be reasonable to propose to
increase this to 32.  Your architecture is not the first, and will not
be the last, to use an all-zero encoding for valid opcodes.

Ben




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