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Re: Updates on libcapstone?
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: Updates on libcapstone? |
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Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:12:37 +0200 |
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On 10/07/2020 21.30, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 7/9/20 6:07 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> I remember you had a series related to capstone, but eventually there
>> was a problem so you postponed it until some patches were merged
>> upstream, do you remember?
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> I do.
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> My biggest problem with libcapstone is that it doesn't have an automated way
> to
> merge from upstream llvm, so it doesn't get any new architecture updates.
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> What I think we should do is drop libcapstone entirely, and use libllvm
> directly. It's a bit more code to use, but llvm is where new architectures
> (and architecture extensions) get merged.
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> A mere matter of coding...
Maybe a nice topic for the next GSoC?
Thomas