David Peter

I'm closing this due to inactivity. Please feel free to comment in case it should be re-opened.

None of the questions above have been answered after two years. I'd like to close this for now.

Thank you. If we add support for this, then I would definitely look for a solution which does not require any additional macro calls like `DBG_REGISTER_STRUCT`.

Given that we have `--skip`, `--length`, negative offsets and units of measurements... most of this ticket seems solved to me (otherwise, please correct me). Except for the convenient `--range` syntax....

@0323pin would that work for you?

> Yes, as long as it's in the release tarball, I can extract it and install. But... that should already be the case? ``` ▶ wget https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/releases/download/v0.11.0/hexyl-v0.11.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz ▶ unp hexyl-v0.11.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz...

I understand. But would it be feasible to download a second file? Either the man page directly (assuming it would be attached separately), or one of the existing tarballs (and...

Thank you. I'll tentatively close this, but feel free to comment here in case you need help. Thank you for packaging `hexyl`.

> While hexyl going through the file naively would take several minutes of reading the zero bytes, ultimately it would truncate these sections in the actual output. Reading these files...

Sure. I was questioning if it is really taking several minutes or not. In fact, for an 8G sparse file, `hexyl` takes 5.329 s ± 0.042 s (benchmark below). But...