https://github.com/tenderlove/dwarf-consts

Constants defined in the DWARF spec but in a machine readable format
https://github.com/tenderlove/dwarf-consts

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Constants defined in the DWARF spec but in a machine readable format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tenderlove/dwarf-consts
• Owner: tenderlove
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-01-06T00:04:16.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-06T00:22:56.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-18T11:09:56.142Z (16 days ago)
• Topics: constants, dwarf
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# DWARF Constants

This is just a repository that contains all of the constants from [the DWARF

spec](http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf) but in a machine readable and program

language agnostic format.

I didn't want to write a LaTeX parser, and it seems like other projects have

all the DWARF constants hard coded in their respective language.  This is a

language agnostic repository of the DWARF constants so that other projects can

write DWARF parsers or generators without copy / pasting from a PDF.

## Frequently Asked Questions

I literally just created this project, so nobody has asked me any questions.

## Questions I Suspect Will Be Asked Frequently

### 1. What is the point of this project?

I wanted to build a DWARF parser in Ruby and it seemed like all DWARF parsers

hard-code the constants in the particular implementation language:

  * https://github.com/gimli-rs/gimli/blob/9630b7442c17e1b3d87ece81bdf17107bfb673e4/src/constants.rs#L93

  * https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools/blob/a347dbfab622ab98d9747d862ade9e6b6fd9425c/elftools/dwarf/constants.py#L12

  * https://github.com/avast/libdwarf/blob/c51918d213fe2daf7ff8b32eb70106fd50f9f4f4/libdwarf/libdwarf/dwarf.h#L57

 

It would be nice if when the DWARF spec is updated that rather than copy /

pasting from a PDF we could just generate the constants.  That's why I made this.

### 2. Why YAML?

I chose YAML over JSON because I could represent numbers in hexadecimal format,

like the spec does.