[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D156086: [lldb][NFC] Use MCInstrAnalysis when available in the disassembler plugin

Venkata Ramanaiah Nalamothu via Phabricator via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jul 24 00:38:42 PDT 2023


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Since the info in MCInstrDesc is based on opcodes only, it is often quite
inaccurate. The MCInstrAnalysis has been added so that targets can provide
accurate info, which is based on registers used by the instruction, through
the own versions of MCInstrDesc functions.

The RISCVMCInstrAnalysis, which needs to refine several MCInstrDesc methods,
is a good example for this.

Given the llvm-objdump also uses MCInstrAnalysis, I think this change is in
the right direction.

The default implementation of MCInstrAnalysis methods forward the query to
MCInstrDesc functions. Hence, no functional change is intended/expected.

To avoid bloating up MCInstrAnalysis, only the methods provided by it and
the ones used by disassembler plugin are changed to use MCInstrAnalysis when
available.

Though I am not sure if it will be useful, making MCInstrAnalysis available
in the disassembler plugin would allow enabling symbolize operands feature
in lldb as well.


Repository:
  rG LLVM Github Monorepo

https://reviews.llvm.org/D156086

Files:
  lldb/source/Plugins/Disassembler/LLVMC/DisassemblerLLVMC.cpp
  llvm/include/llvm/MC/MCInstrAnalysis.h

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