Jump visualization feature for objdump.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Wed Nov 6 19:12:00 GMT 2019


On 11/6/19 2:09 PM, Thomas Troeger wrote:
> I have written a program that adds visualization of jumps inside a
> function to the output of objdump in the form of a post-processor
> 
> $ objdump -wzSCD binary | postprocessor
> 
> Is that feature interesting enough to include it into objdump, for
> example behind a command-line switch like `--visualize-jumps'? If
> yes, what is the workflow to add this feature? I could of course port
> it from my tool, which is written in C++14, but there is the question
> who will review a patch for inclusion when I have it finished, and
> what are other prerequisites (source code formatting, test cases
> ...)?
> 
> Please enlighten me with your answers.

This is awesome. I do this all the time with a pencil!

We should allow using C++14 binutils! :)

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Cheers,
Carlos.



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