From a6dd529dd5987e0164d0d3348df101359998be10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikita Smith <git.nikita.smith@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:10:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] explicitly handle null terminator in abbrev parse

---
 src/dwarf/dwarf_parse.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dwarf/dwarf_parse.c b/src/dwarf/dwarf_parse.c
index c6f603b6..bdaae721 100644
--- a/src/dwarf/dwarf_parse.c
+++ b/src/dwarf/dwarf_parse.c
@@ -452,8 +452,17 @@ dw_read_abbrev_tag(String8 data, U64 offset, DW_Abbrev *out_abbrev)
   U64 cursor           = offset;
   
   // read tag ID and kind
-  U64 id, kind;
+  U64 id = 0;
   TryRead(str8_deserial_read_uleb128(data, cursor, &id), cursor, exit);
+
+  // is this null terminator?
+  if (id == 0) {
+    total_bytes_read = cursor - offset;
+    MemoryZeroStruct(out_abbrev);
+    goto exit;
+  }
+
+  U64 kind = 0;
   TryRead(str8_deserial_read_uleb128(data, cursor, &kind), cursor, exit);
 
   // read child flag