Re: objdump '--stop-address' option stop on a wrong ending address

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 07 2016, Nick Clifton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Florian,
>
>> I try to extract function assembly code with objdump using
>> "--start-address" and "--stop-address" options but the stop address stop
>> on the second to last address.
>
>> $ objdump --start-address=0x50c40 --stop-address=0x50c5f -d
>
>>    50c59:    b8 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%eax
>>    50c5e:    c3                      retq
>> 
>> As you can see the last address is wrong. The assembly code stop on
>> 0x50c5e instead of 0x50c5f.
>
> Actually this is the intended behaviour.  The --stop-address option 
> specifies the address at which objdump should *stop* displaying data.  
> So when objdump reaches address 50c5f it stops and does not display
> the disassembly for that address.
>
> In order to display the entire disassembly of a specific region you
> need to set the stop address to one more than the last address of the
> region concerned.

But note that the region does end at 0x50c5f, so there is nothing more
to disassemble anyway.

Andreas.

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