On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:14 -0500, Jason King wrote:
> I can easily make mine always return success, and merely put the
> instruction value into the output buffer on invalid instructions.
> This would get around the dis behavior, which would help in
> verification, but it doesn't seem right.
The return -1 allows a disassembler for a variable-length instruction
architecture to resynchronize on the next symbol, but that's not
necessary if instructions are fixed size like they are on sparc; you can
keep stumbling on and you'll never get out of synch with the real
instruction boundaries because instructions are always aligned on 4-byte
boundaries.
- Bill
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