[Issue 14497] Disassembly view

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14497

--- Comment #3 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> ---
My current idea is to abuse the "Code Definition Window" to show assembly
instead. The assembly would be a file produced by compiling and dumping the
file after saving it (or maybe after some new command invoked by a hotkey). The
caret location inside the dump file would update according to a line number
change in the editor.

> Short of source, at very least, there needs to be symbol names at the header of blocks of code. 

There are, but I'd like to avoid having to figure the actual mangled D symbol
from the source (though feasable). Using debug line numbers seems better for
navigating larger functions.

> Do the GNU tools make this easier? 

The objdump tools that come with GDC or LDC don't produce really helpful
results (and don't work on OMF and MS-COFF). When compiling to assembly, GDC
adds location information which could be used, LDC does not (I might be missing
some command-line switch, though). DMD can't build to asm anyway, so dumping an
object file will be necessary anyway.

Maybe I can rip some code from cv2pdb, it can read line number information from
executables with CV4 and DWARF debug information. I'll have to add CV8 support
for Win64 though.

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