Re: [kdb] disassemblers

[Martin Hicks <mort@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:53:32PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:34:57AM -0800, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> > 
> > I think that's a good idea.   Have you any suggestions for a starting base? 
> >  Something BSD licensed, perhaps?
> 
> I'd just start with the existing bfd code and massage it until it
> resembles C code..

I think it seems like a good idea too.  Jay had already noticed that
with newer kernels the bt command was failing due to the disassembler
not being able to parse xsave and xstor instructions.

He had a new disassembler mostly ported, but it is the one from binutils
2.19, which is GPLv3.

mh