Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] disas: Support the Capstone disassembler library

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 September 2017 at 19:35, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> +    /* ??? Capstone requires that we copy the data into a host-addressable
> +       buffer first and has no call-back to read more.  Therefore we need
> +       an estimate of buffer size.  This will work for most RISC, but we'll
> +       need to figure out something else for variable-length ISAs.  */
> +    if (s.info.cap_arch >= 0 && cap_disas(&s.info, pc, 4 * nb_insn)) {
> +        return;
> +    }

Can we do something with gradually adding more to our host buffer
until capstone says it's managed to disassemble the right number
of instructions?

thanks
-- PMM