Filed as issue 250118.1:

https://dwarfstd.org/issues/250118.1.html

-cary


On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM David Blaikie <dblai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1, thanks for bringing this up, Tom - seems like just specing it as class
> "constant" would be fine. And in fact in table 7.5 it's already specified
> that way...
> So might just be a matter of removing the leb128 wording from the quoted
> area?
>
> @Cary Coutant <ccout...@gmail.com> could we get an issue filed for this?
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM Tom Tromey via Dwarf-discuss <
> dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "John" == John DelSignore <jdelsign...@perforce.com> writes:
>>
>> John> Is the discriminant value always a constant? Perhaps DWARF should
>> say,
>> John> "The value of this attribute is of class constant." Table 2.3
>> defines
>> John> attribute class constant as, "One, two, four, eight or sixteen bytes
>> John> of uninterpreted data, or data encoded in the variable length format
>> John> known as LEB128 (see Section 7.6 on page 221).".
>>
>> Yeah, makes sense to me.
>> What I meant by:
>>
>> >>   Additionally there doesn't seem to be any
>> >> reason to limit the forms that may be used here.
>>
>> ... is that any constant form seems fine.
>>
>> Tom
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