gdb: Architectures In Python
23.2.2.33 Python representation of architectures
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GDB uses architecture specific parameters and artifacts in a number of
its various computations. An architecture is represented by an instance
of the 'gdb.Architecture' class.
A 'gdb.Architecture' class has the following methods:
-- Function: Architecture.name ()
Return the name (string value) of the architecture.
-- Function: Architecture.disassemble (START_PC [, END_PC [, COUNT]])
Return a list of disassembled instructions starting from the memory
address START_PC. The optional arguments END_PC and COUNT
determine the number of instructions in the returned list. If both
the optional arguments END_PC and COUNT are specified, then a list
of at most COUNT disassembled instructions whose start address
falls in the closed memory address interval from START_PC to END_PC
are returned. If END_PC is not specified, but COUNT is specified,
then COUNT number of instructions starting from the address
START_PC are returned. If COUNT is not specified but END_PC is
specified, then all instructions whose start address falls in the
closed memory address interval from START_PC to END_PC are
returned. If neither END_PC nor COUNT are specified, then a single
instruction at START_PC is returned. For all of these cases, each
element of the returned list is a Python 'dict' with the following
string keys:
'addr'
The value corresponding to this key is a Python long integer
capturing the memory address of the instruction.
'asm'
The value corresponding to this key is a string value which
represents the instruction with assembly language mnemonics.
The assembly language flavor used is the same as that
specified by the current CLI variable 'disassembly-flavor'.
Machine Code.
'length'
The value corresponding to this key is the length (integer
value) of the instruction in bytes.
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