[Dwarf-discuss] Re: optimized code debugging

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:01 -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> There are some central points getting lost here.
> 
> The point made in issue 050222.1 is that the compiler may not be able
> to tell whether a given address range it's emitting is null or not:
> the start and end addresses may be changed by the assembler or linker,
> and become equal.  That is, location list entries with identical start
> and end addresses may appear without the compiler's knowledge.

Yes, that is why i originally reported the issue.