On 4/20/21 6:06 PM, Aleksandar Rikalo wrote: > Hi Philippe, > >> The plan is to drop the nanoMIPS disassembler because it is broken >> since more than 2 years and nobody ever cared to fix it after Stefan's >> attempt in Nov 2018: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg576504.html >> So it is certainly unused. Unused unmaintained code has a cost and >> negative impact to the generic project development. > > How do you conclude it is broken ? It seems to work well. > Aleksandar Markovic did few fixes during 2019.
One community user tried it, reported a bug which got never fixed. This means the code is not used by the mainstream community, but is a burden for maintenance. > > NanoMIPS needs disassembler, like other architectures... I totally agreed, but we need a working disassembler; this is why I started looking for other alternatives (binutils libopcodes or capstone) and realized nanoMIPS toolchain was never upstreamed, so started the deprecation process.
