o anyone who feels
> moved to provide padding has to re-invent the wheel), feel free to write a
> counter-proposal removing the existing mentions.
>
> --paulr
>
>
>
> *From:* David Blaikie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 30, 2024 6:01 PM
> *To:* Robinson, Paul
> *Cc:* dwarf-di
provide padding has to re-invent the wheel), feel free to write a
counter-proposal removing the existing mentions.
--paulr
From: David Blaikie
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 6:01 PM
To: Robinson, Paul
Cc: dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org
Subject: Re: [Dwarf-discuss] Proposal: Allow padding in
Is anyone actually using this? In my experience linkers are generally
concatenating these sections together with no extra padding/alignment.
I'd rather not spec something that's not used/needed. I'm happy for
consumers to be improved in the face of degenerate entries that might be
created for padd
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 cour
> > ### .debug_abbrev
> >
> > In Section 7.5.3 "Abbreviations Tables" (p.207), at the end of the
> section, add a new non-normative paragraph:
> >
> > *This table may be padded by adding an unused abbreviation entry. The
> minimum number of bytes in an abbreviation entry is four (abbreviation
> num
> ### .debug_abbrev
>
> In Section 7.5.3 "Abbreviations Tables" (p.207), at the end of the section,
> add a new non-normative paragraph:
>
> *This table may be padded by adding an unused abbreviation entry. The minimum
> number of bytes in an abbreviation entry is four (abbreviation number, child
This is Issue 240118.1.
https://dwarfstd.org/issues/240118.1.html
-cary
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM Robinson, Paul via Dwarf-discuss
wrote:
>
> # Allow padding in all tables
>
> Enhancement; multiple sections.
>
> ## Background
>
> Issue 230329.1 requires all tables to be contiguous. Durin
