Re: [hatari-devel] The external disassembler is now really external

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 20.8.2022 12.24, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Now that 2.4.1 has been released, I've committed some patches that finally
> get rid of the hard-to-maintain "external" disassembler code in Hatari.
> But instead of getting rid of the external disassembler completely, I've
> replaced it with the Capstone library, so if you don't like the WinUAE
> disassembly output, you can still get some more traditional disassembly
> that way.
>
> Please have a look, and I've got a question: Was anybody using the config
> flags of the external disassembler so far, i.e. using "--disasm 0xXX" to
> configure upper/lower case or to switch between A7 and SP in the output?

Those options were there in the original external disassembler code, I 
just exposed them for better (Atari) assembler compatibility, and to be 
able to make external assembler output closer to UAE output.

(E.g. brackets are something that WinUAE disassembler uses.)


> I've implemented the upper/lower case settings, but getting the other flags
> working again with the Capstone disassembler would be quite cumbersome...
> So unless anybody urgently needs this, I rather tend to remove that config
> switches completely instead.

I've only ever used defaults myself though.

Handling different columns is important for profiler output.


	- Eero