------- Comment #32 from howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu 2009-11-23 14:38 ------- I got this response over on the gdb mailing list regarding the validity of emitting dwarf debug info containing an AT_location with any block form having a zero length...
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2009-11/msg00168.html -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41473