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Re: [PATCH] DWARF-2 .debug_line reader


Casey Marshall wrote:
> I should probably ask this, too, since I can't find an answer
> anywhere: does DWARF-2 specify an endianness for multibyte integers,
> or does it use the platform's endian? If it is the former, then this
> patch won't work on big-endian machines.

I might be wrong here because it has been a while, but
doesn't DWARF-2 have it's own "LEB128" encoding format for
representing such stuff which is neither plain little-endian
nor plain big-endian?

Ranjit.

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