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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