RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly
Jan Beulich
jbeulich@suse.com
Fri May 8 10:56:01 GMT 2026
On 07.05.2026 15:24, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Attached is a patch to x86 disassembler to make it use the new
> comment buffer framework for printing addresses. I am not sure
> if you will like it however... :-)
Good guess. First and foremost I can't help the impression that is this
tailored to objdump, but won't interact very well with gdb.
> There are three FIXME comments in the patch which point out issues
> that probably ought to be fixed. I did not do that as I wanted to
> keep the patch simple, and because they would involve more work than I
> was willing to put in. At least for a first draft of the patch.
>
> Anyway please take a look when you have the time and let me know what
> you think.
I think I'd like to do this quite a bit differently.
Jan
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