Draft ethdebug/format/pointer schema #77
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Define a pointer to be a region or collection of pointers
Define a region to be an optionally-named, continuous sequence of bytes somewhere
Define slice and segment addressing schemes for memory-like addresses and storage-like addresses, respectively
Define different regions for different data locations using the appropriate addressing scheme
Allow a static group of pointers as a collection
Allow a dynamic list of pointers as a collection (for arrays, etc.)
Allow a conditional choice of pointers as a collection (for strings in storage)
Define an expression schema for writing offsets, etc. in terms of the computation of some expression
Allow referencing regions by name in these expressions
Allow expressions to include arithmetic operations and a few other builtins ($keccak256, e.g.)