[Dwarf-discuss] Proposal: Allow padding in all tables

David Anderson davea42@gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 23:27:48 GMT 2024


On 1/19/24 06:51, Robinson, Paul via Dwarf-discuss wrote:
>> Couldn't the abbrev table simply be padded with 0 bytes?
> Hmmm... that would appear to a dumper as a series of zero-length tables,
> I suppose? Would look funny in a dump but it could work. And would be a
> lot simpler for the producer of course.
> --paulr

I think the zero-length-tables as padding sounds good.
The way the libdwarf's dwarfdump prints such abbrev padding
is not as nice as it should be, I'll fix that.

David Anderson
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