disassembly options
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 15:43:00 GMT 2007
Hi Dave,
> In any case, regardless of whether there are relocs or the data is already
> in-place, the question of how to handle anything other than an exact sequence
> of load-pointer-by-halves-then-immediately-dereference-it remains the same.
My assumption is that whatever algorithm Robin uses it will not guarantee to
detect these special memory addresses, it will only try its best. ie it would
detect simple instruction sequences or maybe well known patterns of
instructions and leave it at that. (In fact if Robin is being really clever
the algorithm might take as input a set of regular expressions to match
instruction patterns and return a name of the memory location when a hit occurs).
Cheers
Nick
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