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Re: Add new field to disassemble_info:
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:46:54 +0000
- Subject: Re: Add new field to disassemble_info:
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
nickc@redhat.com said:
> I am checking in my patch to add the target specific initialisation
> function for the disassemble_info structure.
> I am also going to check in the patch below which adds a new field
> the disassemble_info structure called 'symbol_is_valid'. This is a
> function which can be used to tell the disassembler if a symbol can
> be shown in debugging output. The patch also adds code to objdump
> to use this field and code to the arm disassembler to provide a
> non-default implementation of the function which skips arm elf
> mapping symbols.
Wouldn't the proposal I made yesterday avoid the need for this entirely?
Or is there some other use beyond the ARM mapping symbols where this would
be useful?
R.