[libcpu] Using udis86 as disassembler for x86

[Bjoern Doebel]

Hi everyone,

in order to improve libcpu's x86 frontend respective coverage of
supported opcodes, it might make sense using an existing x86
disassembler.

udis86 (from http://udis86.sourceforge.net/ ) is already used by LLVM
internally (through the --with-udis86= config option) and comes as a
tiny BSD-licensed library, Would there be any objections against using
udis86 for the x86 frontend and if not, would the preferred way be to
incorporate source code or to depend on availability of the lib?

Cheers,
BjoernD

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Bjoern,

As discussed in private, I'm OK with that if other people are find
with the dependency or source import.

Pekka

[Bjoern Doebel]

Well, ...

2010/5/24 Pekka Enberg <pen...@cs.helsinki.fi>:

I found out that I hadn't been searching for the LLVM disassembler
properly. It appears, there is one in LLVM-2.7 and later. I'll have a
look into compiling libcpu with later LLVM versions then.

http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/intro-to-llvm-mc-project.html

Bjoern