Re: disassembly of section .call_table_text?

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

Torsten Mohr wrote:

> Isn't it possible to just show the disassembly of this
> address?  That would be just fine for me.

Unfortunately, insight is constrained by gdb. Gdb will not disassemble 
just anything: it needs a function to specify lower and upper bounds.

Having said that, gdb does provide a way to do something like this, but 
it is not quite as nice. You can use the "x/i $pc" command to show the 
contents of memory at the PC, interpreted as insns. You can also add an 
integer modifier to the x command to show a number of insns, e.g., "x/3i 
$pc" will show the next three insns starting at the PC. For convenience, 
you could use the "display" command the same way. "display/3i $pc" will 
show the next three insns starting with the PC. It will redisplay this 
information everytime the PC changes as a result of stepping, 
continuing, etc.

There is currently no support for this in insight, though. Sorry.

Keith