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[pushed] gcov: update documentation entry about string format

Message ID 3e4f2d65-b240-a6ea-0d0f-54551a075225@suse.cz
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Series [pushed] gcov: update documentation entry about string format | expand

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Martin Liška June 17, 2021, 9:39 a.m. UTC 
gcc/ChangeLog:

	* gcov-io.h: Update documentation entry about string format.
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  gcc/gcov-io.h | 7 +++----
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/gcc/gcov-io.h b/gcc/gcov-io.h
index f7584eb9679..ff92afe63df 100644
--- a/gcc/gcov-io.h
+++ b/gcc/gcov-io.h
@@ -42,15 +42,14 @@  see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively.  If not, see
  
     Numbers are recorded in the 32 bit unsigned binary form of the
     endianness of the machine generating the file. 64 bit numbers are
-   stored as two 32 bit numbers, the low part first.  Strings are
-   padded with 1 to 4 NUL bytes, to bring the length up to a multiple
-   of 4. The number of 4 bytes is stored, followed by the padded
+   stored as two 32 bit numbers, the low part first.
+   The number of bytes is stored, followed by the
     string. Zero length and NULL strings are simply stored as a length
     of zero (they have no trailing NUL or padding).
  
     	int32:  byte3 byte2 byte1 byte0 | byte0 byte1 byte2 byte3
  	int64:  int32:low int32:high
-	string: int32:0 | int32:length char* char:0 padding
+	string: int32:0 | int32:length char* char:0
  	padding: | char:0 | char:0 char:0 | char:0 char:0 char:0
  	item: int32 | int64 | string