Re: [PATCH] DWARF-2 .debug_line reader

[Casey Marshall <csm at gnu dot org>]

>>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gmail.com> writes:

Ranjit> 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.

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

Yes, but it also uses fixed-size 2- and 4-byte integers. I think these
types are used exclusively in the .debug_line section (they are
defined in that section only, that I can see). I do know that these
types are little endian on the platforms I've tried this on (x86 and
mipsel), which are both little endian.

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