Disassembler that tracks what value is where

Posted by Martin C. Martin on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Martin C. Martin
Published on 2010-06-02T17:05:21Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 17:14 UTC
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So lately I've been looking at the disassembly of my C++ code, and having to manually track what's in each register, like this:

  95:   48 8b 16                mov    (%rsi),%rdx ; %rdx = raggedCross.sink
  98:   48 8b 42 38             mov    0x38(%rdx),%rax ; %rax = sink.table
  9c:   8b 4a 10                mov    0x10(%rdx),%ecx ; %ecx = sink.baseCol
  9f:   48 8b 70 50             mov    0x50(%rax),%rsi ; %rsi = table.starts
  a3:   89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax   ; %eax = baseCol
  a5:   83 c1 1c                add    $0x1c,%ecx  ; %ecx = baseCol + 1

And so on. The comments are mine, added by hand, from looking up the offset of various fields (e.g. sink, table, baseCol, starts) in the C++ classes.

It's straight forward to do, but tedius and time consuming: the perfect thing for a program to be doing. gdb seems to know the offset of various fields within a struct: I can do &((Table *)0x1200)->starts and it tells the the right address. So, this information is around.

Is there some disassembler that can use this info to annotate the code for me?

Failing that, I could write my own. Where does gdb get the offsets?

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