DWARF Constants

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