RFD: Enhance crash log output when disassembler is not present

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/10/24 03:56, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> Personally, I like your proposal to make the output of abstract
> disassembler trivially parseable by existing platform tools.
> 
> In absense of hsdis library, it's already cryptic enough not to be
> negatively affected by extra formatting being proposed. And it would be
> very convenient to just feed a block into an assembler tool and get a
> readable assembly back.
> 
> Alternatively, an hsdis-based tool to parse existing output format can
> be introduced, but just relying on platform assembler looks like a
> simpler solution (both from usability and maintenance perspective).

Thanks. My reasoning about using the platform assembler is that, for every
additional tool and utility you have to find, we'll lose about 50% of
people.

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