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

2024-01-18 Thread Cary Coutant via Dwarf-discuss
> ### .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

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

2024-01-18 Thread Cary Coutant via Dwarf-discuss
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

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

2024-01-18 Thread Robinson, Paul via Dwarf-discuss
# Allow padding in all tables Enhancement; multiple sections. ## Background Issue 230329.1 requires all tables to be contiguous. During the discussion of that issue, the question came up of whether all tables allowed padding, so that contiguous concatenated contributions could be aligned reaso