Read and write DWARF's "Little Endian Base 128" (LEB128) variable length integer encoding.

The implementation is a direct translation of the pseudocode in the DWARF 4 standard's appendix C.

Either

$ cargo add leb128

or add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
leb128 = "0.2.1"

use leb128;

let mut buf = [0; 1024];

// Write to anything that implements `std::io::Write`.
{
    let mut writable = &mut buf[..];
    leb128::write::signed(&mut writable, -12345).expect("Should write number");
}

// Read from anything that implements `std::io::Read`.
let mut readable = &buf[..];
let val = leb128::read::signed(&mut readable).expect("Should read number");
assert_eq!(val, -12345);

Documentation

This crate comes with a leb128-repl program that you can use after cargo install leb128 or by running cargo run in clone of this repository.

$ leb128-repl
LEB128 Read-Eval-Print-Loop!

Converts numbers to signed and unsigned LEB128 and displays the results in
base-10, hex, and binary.

> 42
# unsigned LEB128
[42]
[2a]
[00101010]

# signed LEB128
[42]
[2a]
[00101010]

> -42
# unsigned LEB128
error

# signed LEB128
[86]
[56]
[01010110]

> 9001
# unsigned LEB128
[169, 70]
[a9, 46]
[10101001, 01000110]

# signed LEB128
[169, 198, 0]
[a9, c6, 0]
[10101001, 11000110, 00000000]

> -9001
# unsigned LEB128
error

# signed LEB128
[215, 185, 127]
[d7, b9, 7f]
[11010111, 10111001, 01111111]

>

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