Introduction to the DWARF Debugging Format (2012) [pdf]

For me, dwarf's state machine debug encoding was a direct inspiration for my work on the Android Dalvik dex debug data, which I made sure to recognize in its documentation:

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dex-format.ht...

Encoding the dex debug data this way meant we could keep all the debug symbols on our early devices with limited storage, which helped a lot during 1.0 development.

I always thought people in our industry should loudly shout out their references more. I'm glad I did.