[PATCH] Drop the udis86 build dependency

[Anton Korobeynikov]

I don't recall all the details, but iirc the rationale was to do
something in order to debug the old JIT easier. I think it can be
simply dropped now.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/07/2014 20:30, Eric Christopher wrote:
>>
>> Did you try to ping the original committer for this to check in about it?
>
>
> CC'ing in Anton who added it in 2007.
>
>>
>> -eric
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There's no need to incur a user-facing LLVM build dependency on the
>>> external
>>> udis86 project just to support a single debug print statement.
>>>
>>> The machine code is printed by LLVM and can be easily piped into udis86
>>> (or
>>> indeed LLVM's own disassembler) to provide the same debugging experience
>>> without having to link a third-party disassembler into LLVM binaries.
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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University