On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:41:38 -0800 Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right, and on the user side we will not know the start of the "data" / > fixed offset without carrying back that information somehow, due to the > common header size not being a fixed length forever. Good point! The data is not exported to user space via the format files like the __ref_loc field is, so there's no guarantee of knowing where data is. Let's leave it as is. -- Steve