Re: How to display instructions around the current instuction?
Tavis Ormandy via Gdb <[email protected]>
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On 2021-01-28, Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 28 2021, Peng Yu wrote: > >> There could be a syntax to go back a given number of instructions. > > How do you know how long each instruction is? > I just learned about the x/-5i syntax and had the same question. I didn't look at the code but it does seem to know where the boundaries are (e.g. if you start in the middle of an instruction). I guess it must disassemble forward from a previous known location to learn all the boundaries first? Tavis. -- _o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com /\\ _o) _o) $ finger [email protected] _\_V _( ) _( ) @taviso