[Dwarf-discuss] Tables which have a unit_length header field must be contiguous.

2023-03-29 Thread Keith Walker via Dwarf-discuss
# Problem There is no statement if tables must be contiguous or if there can be padding between the tables. # Background Some sections have an implicit assumption that the tables in a section are contiguous so the section can be processed by serially reading the section. Sections in this categor

Re: [Dwarf-discuss] Tables which have a unit_length header field must be contiguous.

2023-03-29 Thread David Blaikie via Dwarf-discuss
Yeah - agreed with this whole description & I'd feel comfortable with either of the proposed additions. On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 2:15 AM Keith Walker via Dwarf-discuss wrote: > > # Problem > > > > There is no statement if tables must be contiguous or if > > there can be padding between the tables.

Re: [Dwarf-discuss] Tables which have a unit_length header field must be contiguous.

2023-03-29 Thread Cary Coutant via Dwarf-discuss
> There is no statement if tables must be contiguous or if > there can be padding between the tables. I've added this as Issue 230329.1. Thanks! -cary -- Dwarf-discuss mailing list Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss

Re: [Dwarf-discuss] ISSUE: CPU vector types.

2023-03-29 Thread Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss
On 3/28/23 13:17, David Blaikie wrote: DW_AT[_GNU]_vector is best understood not as "a hardware vector register" but rather as a marker that "this type is eligible to be passed in hardware vector registers at function boundaries according to the platform ABI". My 2c would not be to describe t