[PATCH 0/5] sframe: use data word instead of offset

[Jens Remus]

Hello Indu!

On 1/20/2026 11:28 AM, Indu Bhagat wrote:
> During the review cycle of SFrame V3, renaming of SFrame FRE offsets to
> something more appropriate was suggested.  In this patch series, we
> adopt the term 'data word' in place of 'offset'.
> 
> In general, in SFrame stack trace format, the interpretation of the
> variable-length array of bytes is deteremined by the FDE type and
> ABI/arch.  With the introduction of SFrame V3, and the new FDE type
> SFRAME_FDE_TYPE_FLEX, it is better to move away from using the term
> "stack offsets" to something more generic like "data words".  The use of
> the "word" here is colloquial, and the size of data words continues to
> be determined by the bits in the SFrame FRE info.
> 
> More info in each individual commit.  Please take a look and let me know
> what you think of the terminology change.
> 
> No changes to ld/ and libsframe/testsuite/ are done yet. My intention
> with this patch series is to rename in the user-interfacing components
> (specification, header file, which later necessitated changes to
> libsframe too).
Thank you for addressing this!  I think the new terminology is better
to understand.  Please see my comments in my individual replies.  In
general:

Reviewed-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>

Regards,
Jens
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