[llvm-dev] [RFC] Support disassembly of ARM and thumb mixed in single ELF file

[Hemant Kulkarni via llvm-dev]

Hi,

 

The llvm-objdump tool at the moment disassembles ARM ELF binary but with lot
of extra user supplied data

*         The triple supplied on the command line for tools has to be be
correct (ARM, thumb etc)

*         The ELF file cannot have mix of ARM and thumb

*         There is no direct way of using it such as llvm-objdump -d
elf_file. This works for architectures such as Hexagon, X86 etc.

 

Is there a way to enhance the tool to make the use more friendly by removing
the need to specify these extra option on command line since it is possible
to find the information in the file.

The ELF file for arm does not have any field that can be easily inspected to
see if the file of type ET_ARM is either a thumb only binary, ARM only
binary or a mix. There is however an optional ARM specific section
.ARM.attributes that can contain CPU and architecture information such as
ISA in use. BFD and gold linker use this section while linking to find any
incompatibilities and then emit out a merged (as per ARM ABI extensions)
section in final binary. 

 

Any ideas to add this functionality to the without completely redesigning
the llvm-objdump will be appreciated. There is already a patch that uses
data from ELF file to try doing this. 

It is at https://reviews.llvm.org/D24636

 

Thanks,

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Hemant Kulkarni

khemant at codeaurora.org

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