amd64/86487: DDB disassembler broken on amd64
Nate Eldredge
nge at cs.hmc.edu
Thu Sep 22 23:10:05 PDT 2005
>Number: 86487
>Category: amd64
>Synopsis: DDB disassembler broken on amd64
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-amd64
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 23 06:10:04 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nate Eldredge
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD vulcan.lan 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #3: Tue Sep 20 16:12:19 PDT 2005 nate at vulcan.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VULCAN amd64
>Description:
The amd64 disassembler in DDB is rather poor. For instance, it does not
comprehend the REX prefix which is used on all 64-bit instructions.
They instead get decoded as "inc" and "dec". This makes the
disassembly useless, and the debugger hard to use.
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>Fix:
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