RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly

Michael Matz matz@suse.de
Thu Apr 23 12:49:09 GMT 2026


Hey,

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026, Nick Clifton wrote:

>   * The annotation is displayed as a comment at the end of the line.

Nice!

>   Thoughts, comments ?

I'm unworried about the size increase of instr_info, there exists exactly 
one instance of it globally (while print_insn runs, on the stack).  It may 
be nice to separate multiple annotations by comma, and/or to integrate the 
%rip-relative print_address_func() call with the 
new number-related-symbol hint print into one loop (so that the order of 
comments relative to the printed order of operands is correct), but I
think that that shouldn't hold off the patch.

And leaks when asprintf returns zero... hmm, who cares :)


Ciao,
Michael.


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