On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:01:41 GMT, Robbin Ehn <r...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > Maybe, but would it really be easier? I don't see that it would be > > _significantly_ easier, and it would be much more riscv community friendly > > to work on the shared disassembler. > > The build would be easier, no deps at all and could be shipped as part of the > release since we control license. (license not an issue with capstone) Building hsdis in a shippable form is key for me. As I see it, binutils is out of the question because its licence is incompatible, (IANAL) LLVM is too large, and only Capstone fits. > And testing as mentioned. Well, yeah, but then if we had our own disassembler we'd have the cost too. > Just want to mention that RV _can_ have same OP code for multiple > instructions (vendor specific), Ouch ouch ouch no! That is the way of disaster. > binutils and llvm have the infrastructure to handle this, a quick peek at > capstone made me think this might be an issue. Thus task may not be as > trivial 'add missing' instructions. Yeah. These mostly look like kernel magic, though. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15138#issuecomment-1735165891
