[PATCH] Drop the udis86 build dependency

Eric Christopher echristo at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 12:06:57 PDT 2014


Cool, thanks Anton.

-eric

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
> 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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