DWARF and gcc

I was recently assigned the task of understanding how my company is
using DWARF debugging information with our custom reconfiguarble
processors, because the person who set up the system has left. I
downloaded the spec and got an assembly output from our version of gcc
and began trying to make sense of it. Though the whole system seems
more convoluted than it really needs to be to me, one thing is very
confusing: The documentation reads, "The abbreviations for a given
compilation unit end with an entry consisting of a 0 byte for the
abbreviation code." However, the debug_abbrev section in the assembly
code I produced ends with the normal .byte 0,0 ending for an
abbreviation table entry. Is this a problem with gcc or a
misinterpretation of the spec on my part?


Benjamin

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