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RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] Disassembly View Requirement

Agree on the CDI interface, shouldn't mentioned about CDI, I was just
using it as an example. We can have a disassembly component, its purpose
is to provide disassembly info, and it is up to each view to consume the
disassembly data from this component. Am I on the right path?

Regarding show disassembly in memory view, is there any use case that
the user is looking at a memory region and want to see disassembly? You
can basically do the same if you jump to an address in the disassembly
window and examine the opCode (memory) there. Also, there are targets
that have multiple memory page, and not all the pages are program
memory. You wouldn't be able to show disassembly for data page, I/O
page, etc...

-Patrick

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Subject: RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] Disassembly View Requirement

Hi Patrick -

It was in one of the discussions:
John:  > Another option for the sort of thing you're talking about is to
introduce a feature in the binary parser and perhaps expose that via the
modules view.
Mikhail >Glad to hear it, I have been thinking on this feature for a
long
time.

And I think it makes sense to show it anywhere a debug implementer
decides
that it make sense.  i.e. the solution needs to be generic enough that
it's
not tied to any view or editor.

Another requirement that I want to bring up is that the solution should
not
be tied to CDT or CDI interface.  The solution should also be generic
enough that the disassembly component can be reused by people whose
products are not built on top of CDT.

Re:  Displaying disassembly in Memory View
Although CDT has not considered replacing its disassembly view with the
Memory View.  I still think it's a requirement to allow showing
disassembly
in the Memory View.  There could be use case where user is working with
memory and is wondering what kind of disassembly instructions or source
are
being generated.

Thanks...
Samantha



 

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Samantha,

I am not so sure whether having disassembly to show in any other view
other than the editor and disassembly view is such a good idea. I don't
see any reason why a user will like to do that. Maybe I am missing some
of the previous discussions. As for adding disassembly view in the
editor, Mikhail has suggested that we created an extension point for the
editor, and I think this should be the way to go.

Yes true for optimized code, not all sources can be mapped to
disassembly text. So for source base, you will not be seeing any
disassembly text in the mixed mode if there is no associated
disassembly, and in the address base method, you will not see source if
an address can't be map to source.

As for how you decode the instruction from binary file or memory on the
target, I'll say it is up to the debugger to decide how to decode the
disassembly from a given address. The CDI interface should just be
asking the debugger to disassembly at a given address, and the debugger
should just return the disassembled text, by either reading memory or
from the binary file and than decode the opCode.

Regards,
Patrick

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Subject: RE: [dsdp-dd-dev] Disassembly View Requirement

Hi -

Re:  R1 Generic Disassembly View
Are we having a separate disassembly view?  Or are we looking at
displaying
disassembly as a rendering in the Memory View?  Showing disassembly in
the
Memory View was one of CDT's requirements.

Re:  Portable disassembly component
One of the requirements is to make showing disassembly as a portable
component and it can be "plugged" into any view or editor or anywhere we
need it.  e.g. the Modules View

Re:  Optimized code:
I think there is another requirement for dealing with optimized code.
Kirt
Beitz from Freescale indicated that they have cases where there is no
1-to-1 mapping between instructions and source code either way.  They
need
to be able to show disassembly and source side-by-side, not interlacing.
They need to be able to highlight several non-contigous lines of
instructions per source line... or highlight several non-contiguous
lines
of source lines per instruction.

Re:  Input to disassembly
Does it make sense to add a requirement to allow this disassembly
component
to accept any input for creating the disassembly "view"?  e.g. We have
cases where it makes sense for the disassembly component to disassemble
memory from a memory block and show it as disassembly instructions.  In
other cases, we can have a binary file as input and display its content
as
disassembly.

Thanks...
Samantha





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Hi,

The requirement of mixed mode/assembly/source toggle is also an Editor
Subgroup requirement.  We should coordinate and work together on this.
Some of the other requirements seem relevant to the Editor as well, such
as
the multiple breakpoint icons.

Thanks,
Ewa.

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Subject: [dsdp-dd-dev] Disassembly View Requirement

Hi everyone,

I have updated the disassembly twiki website with the requirements that
I
have gather through multiple email threads in the archive. Any feedback
and
additional requirement is welcome. Additionally, I suggest that we keep
one
discussion thread for the disassembly view requirement. This can be
related
to the CDT disassembly view or Disassembly renderer in the Memory view.

Regards,
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