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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2019-01-17 15:29:43 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2019-01-17 15:29:43 +0000
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Update objdump's --disassemble=<symbol> feature so that if <symbol> is a function, the entire function will be disassembled, regardless of the presence of interveening symbols.
* objdump.c (disassemble_section): When disassembling from a symbol only stop at the next symbol if the original symbol was not a function symbol. Otherwise continue disassembling until a new function is reached. * testsuite/binutils-all/objdump.exp: Add tests of extended functionality. * testsuite/binutils-all/disasm.s: New test source file.
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@@ -2230,9 +2230,11 @@ with ctags tool.
Display the assembler mnemonics for the machine instructions from the
input file. This option only disassembles those sections which are
expected to contain instructions. If the optional @var{symbol}
-argument is given, then display the assembler mnemonics only from
-@var{symbol} up to next symbol. If there are no matches for
-@var{symbol} then nothing will be displayed.
+argument is given, then display the assembler mnemonics starting at
+@var{symbol}. If @var{symbol} is a function name then disassembly
+will stop at the end of the function, otherwise it will stop when the
+next symbol is encountered. If there are no matches for @var{symbol}
+then nothing will be displayed.
@item -D
@itemx --disassemble-all