[Dwarf-Discuss] variable locations - safe use as lvalues

[David Anderson]

> On 1/21/20 11:18 AM, Greg Clayton via Dwarf-Discuss wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> Presumably, a debugger could check that location lists do not
>>>> overlap.
>>>
>>> This could nevertheless be a valid heuristic to detect the case.
>>
>> the "llvm-dwarfdump" binary in llvm.org <http://llvm.org>?has a
>> "--verify" option that looks for issues in DWARF and reports errors.
>> Not sure if there are any other tools out there that do this, but this
>> would be a great check to add to any DWARF verifier.
>
>


While dwarfdump has 'check the DWARF' options available the
location list overlap test is not done at all. The -kl option suggests
it does loclist checking, but
its checking is rather superficial.


  Interesting thing to check, I'll see if I can
  do something.

  David Anderson