From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't we consistent on displacement in x86 disassembler?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070426155426.GA14771@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4630E319.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:36:25PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >We can do one of
> >
> >1. Use decimal on all 8bit displacements and hex on all 16/32bit
> >displacement.
> >2. Use hex on all displacements.
> >
> >Any comments?
>
> I'd prefer option 2. Jan
I have another idea. We use decimal on all displacements which
can be fitted in 8 bits since -128 is easier to read than
0xffffff80 and is what is in the original assembly code anyway.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-26 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-26 14:43 H. J. Lu
2007-04-26 14:54 ` H. J. Lu
2007-04-26 15:54 ` Jan Beulich
2007-04-26 15:59 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2007-04-26 16:05 ` Jan Beulich
2007-04-26 16:23 ` H. J. Lu
2007-04-26 16:31 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-26 17:19 ` H. J. Lu
2007-04-27 8:40 ` PATCH: PR binutils/4430: We aren't consistent on displacement in x86 disassembler H. J. Lu
2007-04-27 12:40 ` PATCH: Little endian target "binary_little" Kai Tietz
2007-04-27 13:54 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-27 14:54 ` Kai Tietz
2007-04-27 16:26 ` Alan Modra
2007-04-27 13:39 ` PATCH: PR binutils/4430: We aren't consistent on displacement in x86 disassembler Paul Brook
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