RFR: 8295795: hsdis does not build with binutils 2.39+ [v3]

[Andrew Haley]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:13:49 GMT, Robbin Ehn <rehn at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Capstone is not worked on by any rv folks, it had a init push of 'base' isa 4y ago and left at that. Just this year it will around 5-10 new extension to the ISA, with major ones as vector. Which means it would be us hotspot de. that needs to everything in capstone. If so it would be easier to add the disassembler to hotspot; we can unittest that you added the disassembler part for your new instruction in the assembler.

Maybe, but would it really be easier? I don't see that it would be _significantly_ easier, and it would be much more riscv community friendly to work on the shared disassembler.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15138#issuecomment-1733317308