From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14978 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2003 12:01:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14971 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2003 12:01:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.inode.at) (62.99.194.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Sep 2003 12:01:17 -0000 Received: from [62.99.184.57] (port=34910 helo=ARGON) by smtp.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 19wKhi-0006t7-00 for insight@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:01:11 +0200 From: "Richard van Wegen" To: Subject: Suggestion: abbreviate labels in assembly Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 X-SW-Source: 2003-q3/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 Dear All after using Insight for a while now I've found it absolutely invaluable for tracking down bugs. I do have a suggestion - there are a couple of little quirks that can be annoying at times, one in particular has been more prominent lately and hopefully should be easy to fix? Namely that when I examine the assembly listing for a c++ program, the address labels can become ludicrously long. A not uncommon example: - 0x407524 : call 0x42efe4 This makes it an extremely frustrating exercise to read the assembly because you have to pan the horizontal scrollbar to the end each time and it keeps jumping back to the left edge as you scroll downwards through the listing. It sure would sooth my nerves if there were an option to abbreviate, truncate, place in tooltips, or otherwise turn off the address labels, at least for the program counter labels on the left. The destination labels (eg call or branch destinations) aren't such a problem. I would also be rather pleased if there were the option to make all numbers default to hexadecimal instead of decimal (offsets, typing addresses, etc)!! Thanks again for a fantastic productivity tool! Cheers! Richard