On 11/28/2017 Todd Allen wrote: > Well, I could bring up the whole descriptive vs. prescriptive argument to > counter that. But I don't want to! > I think this violates the intent of the standard, which was that the > two trees > should match. If that wasn't the intention, there wouldn't need to be > wording > giving you permission to omit certain DIE's.
Well, I'm happy to be wrong on this point. Allowing differences between concrete and abstract other than the specified ones opens the door to severe concrete/abstract matching problems. Todd is right: that cannot have been our intent in creating the standard. Another point that perhaps should be mentioned in Errata for DWARF5. DavidA -- Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything. -- slashdot.org _______________________________________________ Dwarf-Discuss mailing list Dwarf-Discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org http://lists.dwarfstd.org/listinfo.cgi/dwarf-discuss-dwarfstd.org