[PATCH 0/3] disassembler syntax highlighting in objdump (via libopcodes)

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

This series is a serious attempt at what I discussed here:

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-December/118806.html

This series changes libopcodes so that this disassemblers can supply
styling information with every piece of disassembly output, e.g. is
this a register?  an address?  a mnemonic?  etc.

Users of the disassembler can then choose to make use of this
information to add styling to the disassembler output.

And that is what I do for objdump in this series.  The styling is off
by default, but can be turned on with a new command line flag:
    --disassembler-color=off|color|extended-color

I've updated GDB enough to keep it building and running after this
change, though at this point GDB doesn't make use of the new styling
information, that will come later.

All feedback would be welcome.

Thanks,
Andrew

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Andrew Burgess (3):
  objdump/opcodes: add syntax highlighting to disassembler output
  opcodes/riscv: implement style support in the disassembler
  opcodes/i386: partially implement disassembler style support

 binutils/NEWS              |   4 +
 binutils/doc/binutils.texi |  11 ++
 binutils/objdump.c         | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 gdb/disasm.c               |  34 ++++-
 gdb/disasm.h               |   7 ++
 include/dis-asm.h          |  62 +++++++++-
 opcodes/dis-init.c         |   5 +-
 opcodes/disassemble.c      |  23 +++-
 opcodes/i386-dis.c         |  71 +++++++----
 opcodes/riscv-dis.c        | 147 +++++++++++-----------
 10 files changed, 475 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)

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