Re: Objdump missinterpretes padding bytes

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Dominic,

> I'm using objdump as a preprocessor for a tool which analyzes a binary's
> assembly and discovered that a jump instruction in the libc function
> "strrchr" has no target or rather the target lies within an instruction.
> Objdump missinterpretes 3 padding bytes and thus creates incorrect disassembly
> output:

Thanks very much for submitting this bug report and the patch.  I have 
asked the x86 binutils maintainers about but unfortunately they feel 
that the patch is not appropriate.  The whole question of how to start 
disassembly at a wrong address is a difficult one to solve and this 
patch only addresses a small subset of the problem.

Cheers
  Nick