Closed #1481 as completed.
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The region tag and the trailer are now documented in #2861.
I'm not going to document common sense like no data can overlap. This is also
not a wishlist, refining further limitations belongs to v6.
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Some other invariants I would like to enforce for packages:
- Alignment padding in a package must be kept to a minimum and must be zeroed.
- A header in a package may not have more than one tag data entry with a given
tag.
- Tag data entries in a package must be sorted.
I would love to require
It's not just the region trailer that is undocumented, it's the whole v4 header
format with the immutable region and all.
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When working on #1471 I found that the invariants of the trailer are not
documented anywhere I could find. I expected them to be as follows:
- The trailer must come after the last index entry in the contiguous region.
- The trailer must not overlap with any other header entry, whether in the
