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Subject: disassembly in gdb?
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From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@motorola.com>
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How does gdb know which disassembler options to use for a given 
architecture target?  For example on PPC there are various flags to 
enable such things as SPE, AltiVec, ISEL, etc.

Is there anyway in an existing gdb to have the disassembler understand 
a different subset of opcodes for the architecture?

thanks.

- kumar