ARM $d mapping symbol support for objdump

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Nov 15 15:24:00 GMT 2006


Hi Daniel,

>> This is OK.  My one minor question is if the disassembly part should use
>> WORD/SHORT/BYTE type prefixes, eg
>>
>> 	<foo> 00000000        .word 00000000
>> rather than
>> 	<foo> 00000000        00000000
> 
> I'll wait a bit and see if anyone has an opinion on this :-)  I don't
> have any preference.

I think that it would be a good idea since there is an obvious 
difference between ".short 0000" and ".word 00000000" whereas visually 
scanning "0000" and "00000000" might not make this difference stand out 
to the reader.

Cheers
   Nick



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