Re: [sarif] #401: Improved design of address object design

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Jim Kupsch
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2019-04-29T21:50:00+00:00
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Re: [sarif] #401: Improved design of address object design
If length is negative, then it is downwards growing.  If it is positive,  then it is upwards growing.  If it is null then it is unknown as it is  just an address not a region.  Jim
On 4/29/19 4:46 PM, Larry Golding (Myriad Consulting Inc) wrote:
> Oh good heavens, but that means that a negative offsetFromParent might not signal a downward-growing structure, so I can't write (as I already have) that "a negative value SHALL mean that the data structure grows from higher addresses towards lower addresses". >
> So what constraints _can_ I put on length/offsetFromParent/relative address, and what _is_ the reliable signal that I have a downward growing structure? >
> Larry >  >