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Subject: Re: [RFA/DWARF] constant class of DW_AT_high_pc is offset for version >=4 only.
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> Note that this might break for DWARF5. See http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=120719.1
>
> Interesting. I am curious why you would handle this attribute as
> an offset even when the value is encoded in address form? Would
> that not help improve backward compatibility with older versions
> of DWARF?

I can imagine this is another space saving measure (removes a
relocation, and relocations add up).