Lensm, a tool for viewing disassembly

Post by vardump » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

Post by mananaysiempre » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 10:13 PM UTC

vardump wrote: post #2

Wow, having to stare at disassembly too often, I really like this. Makes it much faster to follow branches and can easily see what instructions correspond to source code lines, even though it's not very exact at higher optimization levels. This should be integrated in all IDEs.

Post by beeburrt » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 11:11 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #4

vardump wrote: post #2

Wow, having to stare at disassembly too often, I really like this. Makes it much faster to follow branches and can easily see what instructions correspond to source code lines, even though it's not very exact at higher optimization levels. This should be integrated in all IDEs.

With recent versions of GNU objdump, you can use --source --visualize-jumps=color and perhaps also --reloc or --dynamic-reloc for a similar experience with the native toolchain. (Unfortunately, -S/--source absolutely sucks for executables compiled at -O2.) Other tricks include --no-addresses --no-show-raw-insn, which make the disassembly decently diffable.

Post by Conscat » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 2:22 AM UTC

jcul wrote: post #5

c7DJTLrn wrote: post #3

It would probably be worth mentioning that this is for Go in the title.

I'd imagine it would work for any binary with debug symbols, even though the tool is written in go? Though I haven't tried it, on mobile right now.

Post by MobiusHorizons » Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 5:25 AM UTC

vzaliva wrote: post #9

jcul wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd imagine it would work for any binary with debug symbols, even though the tool is written in go? Though I haven't tried it, on mobile right now.

I tried it with C and it does not work. So I guess it is go-specific indeed.