[LLVMdev] Extending llvm-mc to whole executables/libraries

[Filipe Cabecinhas]

Thanks


I'll be waiting for it, then.


Regards,

Filipe Cabecinhas

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 06:08, Michael Spencer wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Filipe Cabecinhas <filcab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I want to extend llvm-mc to make it disassemble whole files, instead of
> > sequences of bytes.
> > Most of the work to read from a Mach-O file is already done by lldb, but
> > that is outside llvm's repository and not useful to llvm-mc (as far as I
> > know).
> > Is anyone working on something similar?
> > Is it desirable to have llvm-mc disassemble whole files? Or should I create
> > another project for that?
> > How do you suggest reading the files? Re-implementing the reading stuff?
> > "Steal" from lldb (I don't know how self-contained the plug-in may be… It
> > could require a big part of lldb)? Any other ideas?
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Filipe Cabecinhas
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm working on object file support, and am just about to commit
> llvm-objdump which does just what you want. It is separate from, but
> uses, MC.
> 
> I gave a talk at the last conference which explains the architecture
> and future plans: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/
> 
> - Michael Spencer
> 
> 
> 




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