>>>>> "Prashant" == Prashant Vaibhav <ad...@mercurysquad.com> writes:
Prashant> Sorry I should have been more precise about that. I don't Prashant> mean a standalone disassembler (objdump should handle that), Prashant> I meant a simple instruction bundle decoder to decode the op Prashant> code, arguments, predicate etc. so that we can generate the Prashant> equivalent tcg primitives for it, like what target-i386/ Prashant> translate.c does. It's basically a warmup exercise for me so Prashant> that I fully understand the ISA (completely different from Prashant> x86 which I am more familiar with). I can then use it in my Prashant> own target-ia64. It may be worth taking a look at the source to `ski' --- an open source IA64 emulator. It's in the Debian source tree. It has a high performance instruction recogniser in it. Prashant> ~Prashant Prashant> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Andreas Färber Prashant> <andreas.faer...@web.de> wrote: Prashant> Hello Prashant, Prashant> Am 25.06.2011 um 07:50 schrieb Prashant Vaibhav: Prashant> Currently I am writing an IA64 ISA disassembler. Prashant> Why are you writing one yourself? Is that due to GPLv2 Prashant> vs. GPLv3 licensing issues with GNU binutils? Prashant> Andreas
