Re: RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly

Project / Subsystem

binutils / binutils

Date

2026-05-08

Proposer

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Source type

public_inbox

Consensus

Under Review

Sentiment

/10

Technical tradeoffs

  • Adding annotations increases the size of the disassembly output.
  • The testsuite failure may indicate platform-specific issues.

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binutils
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binutils
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977be117-100c-4a9a-8368-0bd8409e88b9@suse.com
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public_inbox
title
Re: RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly
headline
RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly
tldr
Jan reports a testsuite failure due to a missing global variable when running with RUNTESTFLAGS=x86-64.
proposer
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
consensus
Under Review
outcome
proposed
sentiment_score
technical_tradeoffs
  • Adding annotations increases the size of the disassembly output.
  • The testsuite failure may indicate platform-specific issues.
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standalone
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  • disassembly
  • x86
  • objdump
  • testsuite
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date
2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z

Re: RFC: Annotate immediates in x86 disassembly

Jan Beulich reports a failure in the binutils testsuite when running the ‘annotate immediates in x86 disassembly’ patch with RUNTESTFLAGS=x86-64. The test fails due to a missing global variable “exe”. He notes that he doesn’t know how to address this issue.