LEB128

LEB128 or Little Endian Base 128 is a variable-length code compression used to store arbitrarily large integers in a small number of bytes. LEB128 is used in the DWARF debug file format[1][2] and the WebAssembly binary encoding for all integer literals.[3]

  1. ^ UNIX International (July 1993), "7.8", DWARF Debugging Information Format Specification Version 2.0, Draft (PDF), retrieved 2009-07-19
  2. ^ Free Standards Group (December 2005). "DWARF Debugging Information Format Specification Version 3.0" (PDF). p. 70. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  3. ^ WebAssembly Community Group (2020-11-12). "Values — Binary Format — WebAssembly 1.1". Retrieved 2020-12-31.