Cleanup: update alignment of TOC

[ctf.git] / common-trace-format-specification.txt

diff --git a/common-trace-format-specification.txt b/common-trace-format-specification.txt
index 00ffe4a81ae8dbf571e28bd5335766562be03979..4af2244ab37adfa5a513cff029811cbdcc48bcea 100644 (file)
--- a/common-trace-format-specification.txt
+++ b/common-trace-format-specification.txt
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ Table of Contents
        4.1.6 GNU/C bitfields
        4.1.7 Floating point
        4.1.8 Enumerations
-4.2 Compound types
-    4.2.1 Structures
-    4.2.2 Variants (Discriminated/Tagged Unions)
-    4.2.3 Arrays
-    4.2.4 Sequences
-    4.2.5 Strings
+   4.2 Compound types
+       4.2.1 Structures
+       4.2.2 Variants (Discriminated/Tagged Unions)
+       4.2.3 Arrays
+       4.2.4 Sequences
+       4.2.5 Strings
 5. Event Packet Header
    5.1 Event Packet Header Description
    5.2 Event Packet Context Description
@@ -816,6 +816,12 @@ located in inner structures (those with a higher number in the listing
 above) can refer to the fields of outer structures (with lower number in
 the listing above). See Section 7.3 TSDL Scopes for more detail.
 
+The total length of an event is defined as the difference between the
+end of its Event Payload and the end of the previous event's Event
+Payload. Therefore, it includes the event header alignment padding, and
+all its fields and their respective alignment padding. Events of length
+0 are forbidden.
+
 6.1 Event Header
 
 Event headers can be described within the meta-data. We hereby propose, as an