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 # Allow Location Descriptions on the DWARF Expression Stack <!-- omit in toc -->

 - [1. Extension](#extension)
 - [2. Heterogeneous Computing Devices](#heterogeneous-computing-devices)
 - [3. DWARF 5](#dwarf-5)
   - [3.1 How DWARF Maps Source Language To Hardware](#how-dwarf-maps-source-language-to-hardware)
   - [3.2 Examples](#examples)
     - [3.2.1 Dynamic Array Size](#dynamic-array-size)
     - [3.2.2 Variable Location in Register](#variable-location-in-register)
     - [3.2.3 Variable Location in Memory](#variable-location-in-memory)
     - [3.2.4 Variable Spread Across Different Locations](#variable-spread-across-different-locations)
     - [3.2.5 Offsetting a Composite Location](#offsetting-a-composite-location)
   - [3.3 Limitations](#limitations)
 - [4. Extension Solution](#extension-solution)
   - [4.1 Location Description](#location-description)
   - [4.2 Stack Location Description Operations](#stack-location-description-operations)
   - [4.3 Examples](#examples-1)
     - [4.3.1 Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register](#source-language-variable-spilled-to-part-of-a-vector-register)
     - [4.3.2 Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers](#source-language-variable-spread-across-multiple-vector-registers)
     - [4.3.3 Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations](#source-language-variable-spread-across-multiple-kinds-of-locations)
     - [4.3.4 Address Spaces](#address-spaces)
     - [4.3.5 Bit Offsets](#bit-offsets)
   - [4.4 Call Frame Information (CFI)](#call-frame-information-cfi)
   - [4.5 Objects Not In Byte Aligned Global Memory](#objects-not-in-byte-aligned-global-memory)
   - [4.6 Higher Order Operations](#higher-order-operations)
   - [4.7 Objects In Multiple Places](#objects-in-multiple-places)
 - [5. Conclusion](#conclusion)
 - [A. Changes to DWARF Debugging Information Format Version 5](#a-changes-to-dwarf-debugging-information-format-version-5)
   - [A.2 General Description](#a-2-general-description)
     - [A.2.5 DWARF Expressions](#a-2-5-dwarf-expressions)
       - [A.2.5.1 DWARF Expression Evaluation Context](#a-2-5-1-dwarf-expression-evaluation-context)
       - [A.2.5.2 DWARF Expression Value](#a-2-5-2-dwarf-expression-value)
       - [A.2.5.3 DWARF Location Description](#a-2-5-3-dwarf-location-description)
       - [A.2.5.4 DWARF Operation Expressions](#a-2-5-4-dwarf-operation-expressions)
         - [A.2.5.4.1 Stack Operations](#a-2-5-4-1-stack-operations)
         - [A.2.5.4.2 Control Flow Operations](#a-2-5-4-2-control-flow-operations)
         - [A.2.5.4.3 Value Operations](#a-2-5-4-3-value-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.3.1 Literal Operations](#a-2-5-4-3-1-literal-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.3.2 Arithmetic and Logical Operations](#a-2-5-4-3-2-arithmetic-and-logical-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.3.3 Type Conversion Operations](#a-2-5-4-3-3-type-conversion-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.3.4 Special Value Operations](#a-2-5-4-3-4-special-value-operations)
         - [A.2.5.4.4 Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.1 General Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-1-general-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.2 Undefined Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-2-undefined-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.3 Memory Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-3-memory-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.4 Register Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-4-register-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.5 Implicit Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-5-implicit-location-description-operations)
           - [A.2.5.4.4.6 Composite Location Description Operations](#a-2-5-4-4-6-composite-location-description-operations)
       - [A.2.5.5 DWARF Location List Expressions](#a-2-5-5-dwarf-location-list-expressions)
   - [A.3 Program Scope Entries](#a-3-program-scope-entries)
     - [A.3.3 Subroutine and Entry Point Entries](#a-3-3-subroutine-and-entry-point-entries)
       - [A.3.3.5 Low-Level Information](#a-3-3-5-low-level-information)
     - [A.3.4 Call Site Entries and Parameters](#a-3-4-call-site-entries-and-parameters)
       - [A.3.4.2 Call Site Parameters](#a-3-4-2-call-site-parameters)
     - [A.3.5 Lexical Block Entries](#a-3-5-lexical-block-entries)
   - [A.4 Data Object and Object List Entries](#a-4-data-object-and-object-list-entries)
     - [A.4.1 Data Object Entries](#a-4-1-data-object-entries)
   - [A.5 Type Entries](#a-5-type-entries)
     - [A.5.7 Structure, Union, Class and Interface Type Entries](#a-5-7-structure-union-class-and-interface-type-entries)
       - [A.5.7.3 Derived or Extended Structures, Classes and Interfaces](#a-5-7-3-derived-or-extended-structures-classes-and-interfaces)
       - [A.5.7.8 Member Function Entries](#a-5-7-8-member-function-entries)
     - [A.5.14 Pointer to Member Type Entries](#a-5-14-pointer-to-member-type-entries)
     - [A.5.16 Dynamic Type Entries](#a-5-16-dynamic-type-entries)
   - [A.6 Other Debugging Information](#a-6-other-debugging-information)
     - [A.6.2 Line Number Information](#a-6-2-line-number-information)
     - [A.6.4 Call Frame Information](#a-6-4-call-frame-information)
       - [A.6.4.1 Structure of Call Frame Information](#a-6-4-1-structure-of-call-frame-information)
       - [A.6.4.2 Call Frame Instructions](#a-6-4-2-call-frame-instructions)
         - [A.6.4.2.1 Row Creation Instructions](#a-6-4-2-1-row-creation-instructions)
         - [A.6.4.2.2 CFA Definition Instructions](#a-6-4-2-2-cfa-definition-instructions)
         - [A.6.4.2.3 Register Rule Instructions](#a-6-4-2-3-register-rule-instructions)
         - [A.6.4.2.4 Row State Instructions](#a-6-4-2-4-row-state-instructions)
         - [A.6.4.2.5 Padding Instruction](#a-6-4-2-5-padding-instruction)
       - [A.6.4.3 Call Frame Instruction Usage](#a-6-4-3-call-frame-instruction-usage)
       - [A.6.4.4 Call Frame Calling Address](#a-6-4-4-call-frame-calling-address)
   - [A.7 Data Representation](#a-7-data-representation)
     - [A.7.4 32-Bit and 64-Bit DWARF Formats](#a-7-4-32-bit-and-64-bit-dwarf-formats)
     - [A.7.5 Format of Debugging Information](#a-7-5-format-of-debugging-information)
       - [A.7.5.5 Classes and Forms](#a-7-5-5-classes-and-forms)
     - [A.7.7 DWARF Expressions](#a-7-7-dwarf-expressions)
       - [A.7.7.1 Operation Expressions](#a-7-7-1-operation-expressions)
       - [A.7.7.3 Location List Expressions](#a-7-7-3-location-list-expressions)
 - [B. Further Information](#b-further-information)

 # 1. Extension

 In DWARF 5, expressions are evaluated using a typed value stack, a separate
 location area, and an independent loclist mechanism. This extension unifies all
 three mechanisms into a single generalized DWARF expression evaluation model
 that allows both typed values and location descriptions to be manipulated on the
 evaluation stack. Both single and multiple location descriptions are supported
 on the stack. In addition, the call frame information (CFI) is extended to
 support the full generality of location descriptions. This is done in a manner
 that is backwards compatible with DWARF 5. The extension involves changes to the
 DWARF 5 sections 2.5 (pp 26-38), 2.6 (pp 38-45), and 6.4 (pp 171-182).

 The extension permits operations to act on location descriptions in an
 incremental, consistent, and composable manner. It allows a small number of
 operations to be defined to address the requirements of heterogeneous devices as
 well as providing benefits to non-heterogeneous devices. It acts as a foundation
 to provide support for other issues that have been raised that would benefit all
 devices.

 Other approaches were explored that involved adding specialized operations and
 rules. However, these resulted in the need for more operations that did not
 compose. It also resulted in operations with context sensitive semantics and
 corner cases that had to be defined. The observation was that numerous
 specialized context sensitive operations are harder for both produces and
 consumers than a smaller number of general composable operations that have
 consistent semantics regardless of context.

 First, section [2. Heterogeneous Computing
 Devices](#heterogeneous-computing-devices) describes heterogeneous devices and
 the features they have that are not addressed by DWARF 5. Then section [3. DWARF
 5](#dwarf-5) presents a brief simplified overview of the DWARF 5 expression
 evaluation model that highlights the difficulties for supporting the
 heterogeneous features. Next, section [4. Extension
 Solution](#extension-solution) provides an overview of the proposal, using
 simplified examples to illustrate how it can address the issues of heterogeneous
 devices and also benefit non-heterogeneous devices. Then overall conclusions are
 covered in section [5. Conclusion](#conclusion). Appendix [A. Changes to DWARF
 Debugging Information Format Version
 5](#a-changes-to-dwarf-debugging-information-format-version-5) gives changes
 relative to the DWARF Version 5 standard. Finally, appendix [B. Further
 Information](#b-further-information) has references to further information.

 # 2. Heterogeneous Computing Devices

 GPUs and other heterogeneous computing devices have features not common to CPU
 computing devices.

 These devices often have many more registers than a CPU. This helps reduce
 memory accesses which tend to be more expensive than on a CPU due to the much
 larger number of threads concurrently executing. In addition to traditional
 scalar registers of a CPU, these devices often have many wide vector registers.

 ![Example GPU Hardware](images/example-gpu-hardware.png)

 They may support masked vector instructions that are used by the compiler to map
 high level language threads onto the lanes of the vector registers. As a
 consequence, multiple language threads execute in lockstep as the vector
 instructions are executed. This is termed single instruction multiple thread
 (SIMT) execution.

 ![SIMT/SIMD Execution Model](images/simt-execution-model.png)

 GPUs can have multiple memory address spaces in addition to the single global
 memory address space of a CPU. These additional address spaces are accessed
 using distinct instructions and are often local to a particular thread or group
 of threads.

 For example, a GPU may have a per thread block address space that is implemented
 as scratch pad memory with explicit hardware support to isolate portions to
 specific groups of threads created as a single thread block.

 A GPU may also use global memory in a non linear manner. For example, to support
 providing a SIMT per lane address space efficiently, there may be instructions
 that support interleaved access.

 Through optimization, the source variables may be located across these different
 storage kinds. SIMT execution requires locations to be able to express selection
 of runtime defined pieces of vector registers. With the more complex locations,
 there is a benefit to be able to factorize their calculation which requires all
 location kinds to be supported uniformly, otherwise duplication is necessary.

 # 3. DWARF 5

 Before presenting the proposed solution to supporting heterogeneous devices, a
 brief overview of the DWARF 5 expression evaluation model will be given to
 highlight the aspects being addressed by the extension.

 ## 3.1 How DWARF Maps Source Language To Hardware

 DWARF is a standardized way to specify debug information. It describes source
 language entities such as compilation units, functions, types, variables, etc.
 It is either embedded directly in sections of the code object executables, or
 split into separate files that they reference.

 DWARF maps between source program language entities and their hardware
 representations. For example:

 - It maps a hardware instruction program counter to a source language program
   line, and vice versa.
 - It maps a source language function to the hardware instruction program counter
   for its entry point.
 - It maps a source language variable to its hardware location when at a
   particular program counter.
 - It provides information to allow virtual unwinding of hardware registers for a
   source language function call stack.
 - In addition, it provides numerous other information about the source language
   program.

 In particular, there is great diversity in the way a source language entity
 could be mapped to a hardware location. The location may involve runtime values.
 For example, a source language variable location could be:

 - In register.
 - At a memory address.
 - At an offset from the current stack pointer.
 - Optimized away, but with a known compiler time value.
 - Optimized away, but with an unknown value, such as happens for unused
   variables.
 - Spread across combination of the above kinds of locations.
 - At a memory address, but also transiently loaded into registers.

 To support this DWARF 5 defines a rich expression language comprised of loclist
 expressions and operation expressions. Loclist expressions allow the result to
 vary depending on the PC. Operation expressions are made up of a list of
 operations that are evaluated on a simple stack machine.

 A DWARF expression can be used as the value of different attributes of different
 debug information entries (DIE). A DWARF expression can also be used as an
 argument to call frame information information (CFI) entry operations. An
 expression is evaluated in a context dictated by where it is used. The context
 may include:

 - Whether the expression needs to produce a value or the location of an entity.
 - The current execution point including process, thread, PC, and stack frame.
 - Some expressions are evaluated with the stack initialized with a specific
   value or with the location of a base object that is available using the
   DW_OP_push_object_address operation.

 ## 3.2 Examples

 The following examples illustrate how DWARF expressions involving operations are
 evaluated in DWARF 5. DWARF also has expressions involving location lists that
 are not covered in these examples.

 ### 3.2.1 Dynamic Array Size

 The first example is for an operation expression associated with a DIE attribute
 that provides the number of elements in a dynamic array type. Such an attribute
 dictates that the expression must be evaluated in the context of providing a
 value result kind.

 ![Dynamic Array Size Example](images/01-value.example.png)

 In this hypothetical example, the compiler has allocated an array descriptor in
 memory and placed the descriptor's address in architecture register SGPR0. The
 first location of the array descriptor is the runtime size of the array.

 A possible expression to retrieve the dynamic size of the array is:

     DW_OP_regval_type SGPR0 Generic
     DW_OP_deref

 The expression is evaluated one operation at a time. Operations have operands
 and can pop and push entries on a stack.

 ![Dynamic Array Size Example: Step 1](images/01-value.example.frame.1.png)

 The expression evaluation starts with the first DW_OP_regval_type operation.
 This operation reads the current value of an architecture register specified by
 its first operand: SGPR0. The second operand specifies the size of the data to
 read. The read value is pushed on the stack. Each stack element is a value and
 its associated type.

 ![Dynamic Array Size Example: Step 2](images/01-value.example.frame.2.png)

 The type must be a DWARF base type. It specifies the encoding, byte ordering,
 and size of values of the type. DWARF defines that each architecture has a
 default generic type: it is an architecture specific integral encoding and byte
 ordering, that is the size of the architecture's global memory address.

 The DW_OP_deref operation pops a value off the stack, treats it as a global
 memory address, and reads the contents of that location using the generic type.
 It pushes the read value on the stack as the value and its associated generic
 type.

 ![Dynamic Array Size Example: Step 3](images/01-value.example.frame.3.png)

 The evaluation stops when it reaches the end of the expression. The result of an
 expression that is evaluated with a value result kind context is the top element
 of the stack, which provides the value and its type.

 ### 3.2.2 Variable Location in Register

 This example is for an operation expression associated with a DIE attribute that
 provides the location of a source language variable. Such an attribute dictates
 that the expression must be evaluated in the context of providing a location
 result kind.

 DWARF defines the locations of objects in terms of location descriptions.

 In this example, the compiler has allocated a source language variable in
 architecture register SGPR0.

 ![Variable Location in Register Example](images/02-reg.example.png)

 A possible expression to specify the location of the variable is:

     DW_OP_regx SGPR0

 ![Variable Location in Register Example: Step 1](images/02-reg.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_regx operation creates a location description that specifies the
 location of the architecture register specified by the operand: SGPR0. Unlike
 values, location descriptions are not pushed on the stack. Instead they are
 conceptually placed in a location area. Unlike values, location descriptions do
 not have an associated type, they only denote the location of the base of the
 object.

 ![Variable Location in Register Example: Step 2](images/02-reg.example.frame.2.png)

 Again, evaluation stops when it reaches the end of the expression. The result of
 an expression that is evaluated with a location result kind context is the
 location description in the location area.

 ### 3.2.3 Variable Location in Memory

 The next example is for an operation expression associated with a DIE attribute
 that provides the location of a source language variable that is allocated in a
 stack frame. The compiler has placed the stack frame pointer in architecture
 register SGPR0, and allocated the variable at offset 0x10 from the stack frame
 base. The stack frames are allocated in global memory, so SGPR0 contains a
 global memory address.

 ![Variable Location in Memory Example](images/03-memory.example.png)

 A possible expression to specify the location of the variable is:

     DW_OP_regval_type SGPR0 Generic
     DW_OP_plus_uconst 0x10

 ![Variable Location in Memory Example: Step 1](images/03-memory.example.frame.1.png)

 As in the previous example, the DW_OP_regval_type operation pushes the stack
 frame pointer global memory address onto the stack. The generic type is the size
 of a global memory address.

 ![Variable Location in Memory Example: Step 2](images/03-memory.example.frame.2.png)

 The DW_OP_plus_uconst operation pops a value from the stack, which must have a
 type with an integral encoding, adds the value of its operand, and pushes the
 result back on the stack with the same associated type. In this example, that
 computes the global memory address of the source language variable.

 ![Variable Location in Memory Example: Step 3](images/03-memory.example.frame.3.png)

 Evaluation stops when it reaches the end of the expression. If the expression
 that is evaluated has a location result kind context, and the location area is
 empty, then the top stack element must be a value with the generic type. The
 value is implicitly popped from the stack, and treated as a global memory
 address to create a global memory location description, which is placed in the
 location area. The result of the expression is the location description in the
 location area.

 ![Variable Location in Memory Example: Step 4](images/03-memory.example.frame.4.png)

 ### 3.2.4 Variable Spread Across Different Locations

 This example is for a source variable that is partly in a register, partly undefined, and partly in memory.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example](images/04-composite.example.png)

 DWARF defines composite location descriptions that can have one or more parts.
 Each part specifies a location description and the number of bytes used from it.
 The following operation expression creates a composite location description.

     DW_OP_regx SGPR3
     DW_OP_piece 4
     DW_OP_piece 2
     DW_OP_bregx SGPR0 0x10
     DW_OP_piece 2

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 1](images/04-composite.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_regx operation creates a register location description in the location
 area.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 2](images/04-composite.example.frame.2.png)

 The first DW_OP_piece operation creates an incomplete composite location
 description in the location area with a single part. The location description in
 the location area is used to define the beginning of the part for the size
 specified by the operand, namely 4 bytes.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 3](images/04-composite.example.frame.3.png)

 A subsequent DW_OP_piece adds a new part to an incomplete composite location
 description already in the location area. The parts form a contiguous set of
 bytes. If there are no other location descriptions in the location area, and no
 value on the stack, then the part implicitly uses the undefined location
 description. Again, the operand specifies the size of the part in bytes. The
 undefined location description can be used to indicate a part that has been
 optimized away. In this case, 2 bytes of undefined value.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 4](images/04-composite.example.frame.4.png)

 The DW_OP_bregx operation reads the architecture register specified by the first
 operand (SGPR0) as the generic type, adds the value of the second operand
 (0x10), and pushes the value on the stack.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 5](images/04-composite.example.frame.5.png)

 The next DW_OP_piece operation adds another part to the already created
 incomplete composite location.

 If there is no other location in the location area, but there is a value on
 stack, the new part is a memory location description. The memory address used is
 popped from the stack. In this case, the operand of 2 indicates there are 2
 bytes from memory.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 6](images/04-composite.example.frame.6.png)

 Evaluation stops when it reaches the end of the expression. If the expression
 that is evaluated has a location result kind context, and the location area has
 an incomplete composite location description, the incomplete composite location
 is implicitly converted to a complete composite location description. The result
 of the expression is the location description in the location area.

 ![Variable Spread Across Different Locations Example: Step 7](images/04-composite.example.frame.7.png)

 ### 3.2.5 Offsetting a Composite Location

 This example attempts to extend the previous example to offset the composite
 location description it created. The [3.2.3 Variable Location in
 Memory](#variable-location-in-memory) example conveniently used the DW_OP_plus
 operation to offset a memory address.

     DW_OP_regx SGPR3
     DW_OP_piece 4
     DW_OP_piece 2
     DW_OP_bregx SGPR0 0x10
     DW_OP_piece 2
     DW_OP_plus_uconst 5

 ![Offsetting a Composite Location Example: Step 6](images/05-composite-plus.example.frame.1.png)

 However, DW_OP_plus cannot be used to offset a composite location. It only
 operates on the stack.

 ![Offsetting a Composite Location Example: Step 7](images/05-composite-plus.example.frame.2.png)

 To offset a composite location description, the compiler would need to make a
 different composite location description, starting at the part corresponding to
 the offset. For example:

     DW_OP_piece 1
     DW_OP_bregx SGPR0 0x10
     DW_OP_piece 2

 This illustrates that operations on stack values are not composable with
 operations on location descriptions.

 ## 3.3 Limitations

 DWARF 5 is unable to describe variables in runtime indexed parts of registers.
 This is required to describe a source variable that is located in a lane of a
 SIMT vector register.

 Some features only work when located in global memory. The type attribute
 expressions require a base object which could be in any kind of location.

 DWARF procedures can only accept global memory address arguments. This limits
 the ability to factorize the creation of locations that involve other location
 kinds.

 There are no vector base types. This is required to describe vector registers.

 There is no operation to create a memory location in a non-global address space.
 Only the dereference operation supports providing an address space.

 CFI location expressions do not allow composite locations or non-global address
 space memory locations. Both these are needed in optimized code for devices with
 vector registers and address spaces.

 Bit field offsets are only supported in a limited way for register locations.
 Supporting them in a uniform manner for all location kinds is required to
 support languages with bit sized entities.

 # 4. Extension Solution

 This section outlines the extension to generalize the DWARF expression evaluation
 model to allow location descriptions to be manipulated on the stack. It presents
 a number of simplified examples to demonstrate the benefits and how the extension
 solves the issues of heterogeneous devices. It presents how this is done in
 a manner that is backwards compatible with DWARF 5.

 ## 4.1 Location Description

 In order to have consistent, composable operations that act on location
 descriptions, the extension defines a uniform way to handle all location kinds.
 That includes memory, register, implicit, implicit pointer, undefined, and
 composite location descriptions.

 Each kind of location description is conceptually a zero-based offset within a
 piece of storage. The storage is a contiguous linear organization of a certain
 number of bytes (see below for how this is extended to support bit sized
 storage).

 - For global memory, the storage is the linear stream of bytes of the
   architecture's address size.
 - For each separate architecture register, it is the linear stream of bytes of
   the size of that specific register.
 - For an implicit, it is the linear stream of bytes of the value when
   represented using the value's base type which specifies the encoding, size,
   and byte ordering.
 - For undefined, it is an infinitely sized linear stream where every byte is
   undefined.
 - For composite, it is a linear stream of bytes defined by the composite's parts.

 ## 4.2 Stack Location Description Operations

 The DWARF expression stack is extended to allow each stack entry to either be a
 value or a location description.

 Evaluation rules are defined to implicitly convert a stack element that is a
 value to a location description, or vice versa, so that all DWARF 5 expressions
 continue to have the same semantics. This reflects that a memory address is
 effectively used as a proxy for a memory location description.

 For each place that allows a DWARF expression to be specified, it is defined if
 the expression is to be evaluated as a value or a location description.

 Existing DWARF expression operations that are used to act on memory addresses
 are generalized to act on any location description kind. For example, the
 DW_OP_deref operation pops a location description rather than a memory address
 value from the stack and reads the storage associated with the location kind
 starting at the location description's offset.

 Existing DWARF expression operations that create location descriptions are
 changed to pop and push location descriptions on the stack. For example, the
 DW_OP_value, DW_OP_regx, DW_OP_implicit_value, DW_OP_implicit_pointer,
 DW_OP_stack_value, and DW_OP_piece.

 New operations that act on location descriptions can be added. For example, a
 DW_OP_offset operation that modifies the offset of the location description on
 top of the stack. Unlike the DW_OP_plus operation that only works with memory
 address, a DW_OP_offset operation can work with any location kind.

 To allow incremental and nested creation of composite location descriptions, a
 DW_OP_piece_end can be defined to explicitly indicate the last part of a
 composite. Currently, creating a composite must always be the last operation of
 an expression.

 A DW_OP_undefined operation can be defined that explicitly creates the undefined
 location description. Currently this is only possible as a piece of a composite
 when the stack is empty.

 ## 4.3 Examples

 This section provides some motivating examples to illustrate the benefits that
 result from allowing location descriptions on the stack.

 ### 4.3.1 Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register

 A compiler generating code for a GPU may allocate a source language variable
 that it proves has the same value for every lane of a SIMT thread in a scalar
 register. It may then need to spill that scalar register. To avoid the high cost
 of spilling to memory, it may spill to a fixed lane of one of the numerous
 vector registers.

 ![Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register Example](images/06-extension-spill-sgpr-to-static-vpgr-lane.example.png)

 The following expression defines the location of a source language variable that
 the compiler allocated in a scalar register, but had to spill to lane 5 of a
 vector register at this point of the code.

     DW_OP_regx VGPR0
     DW_OP_offset_uconst 20

 ![Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register Example: Step 1](images/06-extension-spill-sgpr-to-static-vpgr-lane.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_regx pushes a register location description on the stack. The storage
 for the register is the size of the vector register. The register location
 description conceptually references that storage with an initial offset of 0.
 The architecture defines the byte ordering of the register.

 ![Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register Example: Step 2](images/06-extension-spill-sgpr-to-static-vpgr-lane.example.frame.2.png)

 The DW_OP_offset_uconst pops a location description off the stack, adds its
 operand value to the offset, and pushes the updated location description back on
 the stack. In this case the source language variable is being spilled to lane 5
 and each lane's component which is 32-bits (4 bytes), so the offset is 5*4=20.

 ![Source Language Variable Spilled to Part of a Vector Register Example: Step 3](images/06-extension-spill-sgpr-to-static-vpgr-lane.example.frame.3.png)

 The result of the expression evaluation is the location description on the top
 of the stack.

 An alternative approach could be for the target to define distinct register
 names for each part of each vector register. However, this is not practical for
 GPUs due to the sheer number of registers that would have to be defined. It
 would also not permit a runtime index into part of the whole register to be used
 as shown in the next example.

 ### 4.3.2 Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers

 A compiler may generate SIMT code for a GPU. Each source language thread of
 execution is mapped to a single lane of the GPU thread. Source language
 variables that are mapped to a register, are mapped to the lane component of the
 vector registers corresponding to the source language's thread of execution.

 The location expression for such variables must therefore be executed in the
 context of the focused source language thread of execution. A DW_OP_push_lane
 operation can be defined to push the value of the lane for the currently focused
 source language thread of execution. The value to use would be provided by the
 consumer of DWARF when it evaluates the location expression.

 If the source language variable is larger than the size of the vector register
 lane component, then multiple vector registers are used. Each source language
 thread of execution will only use the vector register components for its
 associated lane.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.png)

 The following expression defines the location of a source language variable that
 has to occupy two vector registers. A composite location description is created
 that combines the two parts. It will give the correct result regardless of which
 lane corresponds to the source language thread of execution that the user is
 focused on.

     DW_OP_regx VGPR0
     DW_OP_push_lane
     DW_OP_uconst 4
     DW_OP_mul
     DW_OP_offset
     DW_OP_piece 4
     DW_OP_regx VGPR1
     DW_OP_push_lane
     DW_OP_uconst 4
     DW_OP_mul
     DW_OP_offset
     DW_OP_piece 4

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 1](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_regx VGPR0 pushes a location description for the first register.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 2](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.2.png)

 The DW_OP_push_lane; DW_OP_uconst 4; DW_OP_mul calculates the offset for the
 focused lanes vector register component as 4 times the lane number.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 3](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.3.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 4](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.4.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 5](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.5.png)

 The DW_OP_offset adjusts the register location description's offset to the
 runtime computed value.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 6](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.6.png)

 The DW_OP_piece either creates a new composite location description, or adds a
 new part to an existing incomplete one. It pops the location description to use
 for the new part. It then pops the next stack element if it is an incomplete
 composite location description, otherwise it creates a new incomplete composite
 location description with no parts. Finally it pushes the incomplete composite
 after adding the new part.

 In this case a register location description is added to a new incomplete
 composite location description. The 4 of the DW_OP_piece specifies the size of
 the register storage that comprises the part. Note that the 4 bytes start at the
 computed register offset.

 For backwards compatibility, if the stack is empty or the top stack element is
 an incomplete composite, an undefined location description is used for the part.
 If the top stack element is a generic base type value, then it is implicitly
 converted to a global memory location description with an offset equal to the
 value.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 7](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.7.png)

 The rest of the expression does the same for VGPR1. However, when the
 DW_OP_piece is evaluated there is an incomplete composite on the stack. So the
 VGPR1 register location description is added as a second part.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 8](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.8.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 9](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.9.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 10](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.10.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 11](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.11.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 12](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.12.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 13](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.13.png)

 At the end of the expression, if the top stack element is an incomplete
 composite location description, it is converted to a complete location
 description and returned as the result.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Vector Registers Example: Step 14](images/07-extension-multi-lane-vgpr.example.frame.14.png)

 ### 4.3.3 Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations

 This example is the same as the previous one, except the first 2 bytes of the
 second vector register have been spilled to memory, and the last 2 bytes have
 been proven to be a constant and optimized away.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.png)

     DW_OP_regx VGPR0
     DW_OP_push_lane
     DW_OP_uconst 4
     DW_OP_mul
     DW_OP_offset
     DW_OP_piece 4
     DW_OP_addr 0xbeef
     DW_OP_piece 2
     DW_OP_uconst 0xf00d
     DW_OP_stack_value
     DW_OP_piece 2
     DW_OP_piece_end

 The first 6 operations are the same.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 7](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_addr operation pushes a global memory location description on the
 stack with an offset equal to the address.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 8](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.2.png)

 The next DW_OP_piece adds the global memory location description as the next 2
 byte part of the composite.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 9](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.3.png)

 The DW_OP_uconst 0xf00d; DW_OP_stack_value pushes an implicit location
 description on the stack. The storage of the implicit location description is
 the representation of the value 0xf00d using the generic base type's encoding,
 size, and byte ordering.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 10](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.4.png)

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 11](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.5.png)

 The final DW_OP_piece adds 2 bytes of the implicit location description as the
 third part of the composite location description.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 12](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.6.png)

 The DW_OP_piece_end operation explicitly makes the incomplete composite location
 description into a complete location description. This allows a complete
 composite location description to be created on the stack that can be used as
 the location description of another following operation. For example, the
 DW_OP_offset can be applied to it. More practically, it permits creation of
 multiple composite location descriptions on the stack which can be used to pass
 arguments to a DWARF procedure using a DW_OP_call* operation. This can be
 beneficial to factor the incrementally creation of location descriptions.

 ![Source Language Variable Spread Across Multiple Kinds of Locations Example: Step 12](images/08-extension-mixed-composite.example.frame.7.png)

 ### 4.3.4 Address Spaces

 Heterogeneous devices can have multiple hardware supported address spaces which
 use specific hardware instructions to access them.

 For example, GPUs that use SIMT execution may provide hardware support to access
 memory such that each lane can see a linear memory view, while the backing
 memory is actually being accessed in an interleaved manner so that the locations
 for each lanes Nth dword are contiguous. This minimizes cache lines read by the
 SIMT execution.

 ![Address Spaces Example](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.png)

 The following expression defines the location of a source language variable that
 is allocated at offset 0x10 in the current subprograms stack frame. The
 subprogram stack frames are per lane and reside in an interleaved address space.

     DW_OP_regval_type SGPR0 Generic
     DW_OP_uconst 1
     DW_OP_form_aspace_address
     DW_OP_offset 0x10

 ![Address Spaces Example: Step 1](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.frame.1.png)

 The DW_OP_regval_type operation pushes the contents of SGPR0 as a generic value.
 This is the register that holds the address of the current stack frame.

 ![Address Spaces Example: Step 2](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.frame.2.png)

 The DW_OP_uconst operation pushes the address space number. Each architecture
 defines the numbers it uses in DWARF. In this case, address space 1 is being
 used as the per lane memory.

 ![Address Spaces Example: Step 3](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.frame.3.png)

 The DW_OP_form_aspace_address operation pops a value and an address space
 number. Each address space is associated with a separate storage. A memory
 location description is pushed which refers to the address space's storage, with
 an offset of the popped value.

 ![Address Spaces Example: Step 4](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.frame.4.png)

 All operations that act on location descriptions work with memory locations
 regardless of their address space.

 Every architecture defines address space 0 as the default global memory address
 space.

 Generalizing memory location descriptions to include an address space component
 avoids having to create specialized operations to work with address spaces.

 The source variable is at offset 0x10 in the stack frame. The DW_OP_offset
 operation works on memory location descriptions that have an address space just
 like for any other kind of location description.

 ![Address Spaces Example: Step 5](images/09-extension-form-aspace.example.frame.5.png)

 The only operations in DWARF 5 that take an address space are DW_OP_xderef*.
 They treat a value as the address in a specified address space, and read its
 contents. There is no operation to actually create a location description that
 references an address space. There is no way to include address space memory
 locations in parts of composite locations.

 Since DW_OP_piece now takes any kind of location description for its pieces, it
 is now possible for parts of a composite to involve locations in different
 address spaces. For example, this can happen when parts of a source variable
 allocated in a register are spilled to a stack frame that resides in the
 non-global address space.

 ### 4.3.5 Bit Offsets

 With the generalization of location descriptions on the stack, it is possible to
 define a DW_OP_bit_offset operation that adjusts the offset of any kind of
 location in terms of bits rather than bytes. The offset can be a runtime
 computed value. This is generally useful for any source language that support
 bit sized entities, and for registers that are not a whole number of bytes.

 DWARF 5 only supports bit fields in composites using DW_OP_bit_piece. It does
 not support runtime computed offsets which can happen for bit field packed
 arrays. It is also not generally composable as it must be the last part of an
 expression.

 The following example defines a location description for a source variable that
 is allocated starting at bit 20 of a register. A similar expression could be
 used if the source variable was at a bit offset within memory or a particular
 address space, or if the offset is a runtime value.

 ![Bit Offsets Example](images/10-extension-bit-offset.example.png)

     DW_OP_regx SGPR3
     DW_OP_uconst 20
     DW_OP_bit_offset

 ![Bit Offsets Example: Step 1](images/10-extension-bit-offset.example.frame.1.png)

 ![Bit Offsets Example: Step 2](images/10-extension-bit-offset.example.frame.2.png)

 ![Bit Offsets Example: Step 3](images/10-extension-bit-offset.example.frame.3.png)

 The DW_OP_bit_offset operation pops a value and location description from the
 stack. It pushes the location description after updating its offset using the
 value as a bit count.

 ![Bit Offsets Example: Step 4](images/10-extension-bit-offset.example.frame.4.png)

 The ordering of bits within a byte, like byte ordering, is defined by the target
 architecture. A base type could be extended to specify bit ordering in addition
 to byte ordering.

 ## 4.4 Call Frame Information (CFI)

 DWARF defines call frame information (CFI) that can be used to virtually unwind
 the subprogram call stack. This involves determining the location where register
 values have been spilled. DWARF 5 limits these locations to either be registers
 or global memory. As shown in the earlier examples, heterogeneous devices may
 spill registers to parts of other registers, to non-global memory address
 spaces, or even a composite of different location kinds.

 Therefore, the extension extends the CFI rules to support any kind of location
 description, and operations to create locations in address spaces.

 ## 4.5 Objects Not In Byte Aligned Global Memory

 DWARF 5 only effectively supports byte aligned memory locations on the stack by
 using a global memory address as a proxy for a memory location description. This
 is a problem for attributes that define DWARF expressions that require the
 location of some source language entity that is not allocated in byte aligned
 global memory.

 For example, the DWARF expression of the DW_AT_data_member_location attribute is
 evaluated with an initial stack containing the location of a type instance
 object. That object could be located in a register, in a non-global memory
 address space, be described by a composite location description, or could even
 be an implicit location description.

 A similar problem exists for DWARF expressions that use the
 DW_OP_push_object_address operation. This operation pushes the location of a
 program object associated with the attribute that defines the expression.

 Allowing any kind of location description on the stack permits the DW_OP_call*
 operations to be used to factor the creation of location descriptions. The
 inputs and outputs of the call are passed on the stack. For example, on GPUs an
 expression can be defined to describe the effective PC of inactive lanes of SIMT
 execution. This is naturally done by composing the result of expressions for
 each nested control flow region. This can be done by making each control flow
 region have its own DWARF procedure, and then calling it from the expressions of
 the nested control flow regions. The alternative is to make each control flow
 region have the complete expression which results in much larger DWARF and is
 less convenient to generate.

 GPU compilers work hard to allocate objects in the larger number of registers to
 reduce memory accesses, they have to use different memory address spaces, and
 they perform optimizations that result in composites of these. Allowing
 operations to work with any kind of location description enables creating
 expressions that support all of these.

 Full general support for bit fields and implicit locations benefits
 optimizations on any target.

 ## 4.6 Higher Order Operations

 The generalization allows an elegant way to add higher order operations that
 create location descriptions out of other location descriptions in a general
 composable manner.

 For example, a DW_OP_extend operation could create a composite location
 description out of a location description, an element size, and an element
 count. The resulting composite would effectively be a vector of element count
 elements with each element being the same location description of the specified
 bit size.

 A DW_OP_select_bit_piece operation could create a composite location description
 out of two location descriptions, a bit mask value, and an element size. The
 resulting composite would effectively be a vector of elements, selecting from
 one of the two input locations according to the bit mask.

 These could be used in the expression of an attribute that computes the
 effective PC of lanes of SIMT execution. The vector result efficiently computes
 the PC for each SIMT lane at once. The mask could be the hardware execution mask
 register that controls which SIMT lanes are executing. For active divergent
 lanes the vector element would be the current PC, and for inactive divergent
 lanes the PC would correspond to the source language line at which the lane is
 logically positioned.

 Similarly, a DW_OP_overlay_piece operation could be defined that creates a
 composite location description out of two location descriptions, an offset
 value, and a size. The resulting composite would consist of parts that are
 equivalent to one of the location descriptions, but with the other location
 description replacing a slice defined by the offset and size. This could be used
 to efficiently express a source language array that has had a set of elements
 promoted into a vector register when executing a set of iterations of a loop in
 a SIMD manner.

 ## 4.7 Objects In Multiple Places

 A compiler may allocate a source variable in stack frame memory, but for some
 range of code may promote it to a register. If the generated code does not
 change the register value, then there is no need to save it back to memory.
 Effectively, during that range, the source variable is in both memory and a
 register. If a consumer, such as a debugger, allows the user to change the value
 of the source variable in that PC range, then it would need to change both
 places.

 DWARF 5 supports loclists which are able to specify the location of a source
 language entity is in different places at different PC locations. It can also
 express that a source language entity is in multiple places at the same time.

 DWARF 5 defines operation expressions and loclists separately. In general, this
 is adequate as non-memory location descriptions can only be computed as the last
 step of an expression evaluation.

 However, allowing location descriptions on the stack permits non-memory location
 descriptions to be used in the middle of expression evaluation. For example, the
 DW_OP_call* and DW_OP_implicit_pointer operations can result in evaluating the
 expression of a DW_AT_location attribute of a DIE. The DW_AT_location attribute
 allows the loclist form. So the result could include multiple location
 descriptions.

 Similarly, the DWARF expression associated with attributes such as
 DW_AT_data_member_location that are evaluated with an initial stack containing a
 location description, or a DWARF operation expression that uses the
 DW_OP_push_object_address operation, may want to act on the result of another
 expression that returned a location description involving multiple places.

 Therefore, the extension needs to define how expression operations that use those
 results will behave. The extension does this by generalizing the expression stack
 to allow an entry to be one or more single location descriptions. In doing this,
 it unifies the definitions of DWARF operation expressions and loclist
 expressions in a natural way.

 All operations that act on location descriptions are extended to act on multiple
 single location descriptions. For example, the DW_OP_offset operation adds the
 offset to each single location description. The DW_OP_deref* operations simply
 read the storage of one of the single location descriptions, since multiple
 single location descriptions must all hold the same value. Similarly, if the
 evaluation of a DWARF expression results in multiple single location
 descriptions, the consumer can ensure any updates are done to all of them, and
 any reads can use any one of them.

 # 5. Conclusion

 A strength of DWARF is that it has generally sought to provide generalized
 composable solutions that address many problems, rather than solutions that only
 address one-off issues. This extension attempts to follow that tradition by
 defining a backwards compatible composable generalization that can address a
 significant family of issues. It addresses the specific issues present for
 heterogeneous computing devices, provides benefits for non-heterogeneous
 devices, and can help address a number of other previously reported issues.

 # A. Changes to DWARF Debugging Information Format Version 5

 > NOTE: This appendix provides changes relative to DWARF Version 5. It has been
 > defined such that it is backwards compatible with DWARF Version 5.
 > Non-normative text is shown in <i>italics</i>. The section numbers generally
 > correspond to those in the DWARF Version 5 standard unless specified
 > otherwise. Definitions are given to clarify how existing expression
 > operations, CFI operations, and attributes behave with respect to generalized
 > location descriptions that support multiple places.
 >
 > > NOTE: Notes are included to describe how the changes are to be applied to
 > > the DWARF Version 5 standard. They also describe rational and issues that
 > > may need further consideration.

 ## A.2 General Description

 ### A.2.5 DWARF Expressions

 > NOTE: This section, and its nested sections, replaces DWARF Version 5 section
 > 2.5 and section 2.6. It is based on the text of the existing DWARF Version 5
 > standard.

 DWARF expressions describe how to compute a value or specify a location.

 <i>The evaluation of a DWARF expression can provide the location of an object,
 the value of an array bound, the length of a dynamic string, the desired value
 itself, and so on.</i>

 If the evaluation of a DWARF expression does not encounter an error, then it can
 either result in a value (see [2.5.2 DWARF Expression
 Value](#dwarf-expression-value)) or a location description (see [2.5.3 DWARF
 Location Description](#dwarf-location-description)). When a DWARF expression
 is evaluated, it may be specified whether a value or location description is
 required as the result kind.

 If a result kind is specified, and the result of the evaluation does not match
 the specified result kind, then the implicit conversions described in [2.5.4.4.3
 Memory Location Description
 Operations](#memory-location-description-operations) are performed if
 valid. Otherwise, the DWARF expression is ill-formed.

 If the evaluation of a DWARF expression encounters an evaluation error, then the
 result is an evaluation error.

 > NOTE: Decided to define the concept of an evaluation error. An alternative is
 > to introduce an undefined value base type in a similar way to location
 > descriptions having an undefined location description. Then operations that
 > encounter an evaluation error can return the undefined location description or
 > value with an undefined base type.
 >
 > All operations that act on values would return an undefined entity if given an
 > undefined value. The expression would then always evaluate to completion, and
 > can be tested to determine if it is an undefined entity.
 >
 > However, this would add considerable additional complexity and does not match
 > that GDB throws an exception when these evaluation errors occur.

 If a DWARF expression is ill-formed, then the result is undefined.

 The following sections detail the rules for when a DWARF expression is
 ill-formed or results in an evaluation error.

 A DWARF expression can either be encoded as an operation expression (see [2.5.4
 DWARF Operation Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)), or as a
 location list expression (see [2.5.5 DWARF Location List
 Expressions](#dwarf-location-list-expressions)).

 #### A.2.5.1 DWARF Expression Evaluation Context

 A DWARF expression is evaluated in a context that can include a number of
 context elements. If multiple context elements are specified then they must be
 self consistent or the result of the evaluation is undefined. The context
 elements that can be specified are:

 1.  <i>A current result kind</i>

     The kind of result required by the DWARF expression evaluation. If specified
     it can be a location description or a value.

 2.  <i>A current thread</i>

     The target architecture thread identifier of the source program thread of
     execution for which a user presented expression is currently being
     evaluated.

     It is required for operations that are related to target architecture
     threads.

     <i>For example, the `DW_OP_regval_type` operation.</i>

 3.  <i>A current call frame</i>

     The target architecture call frame identifier. It identifies a call frame
     that corresponds to an active invocation of a subprogram in the current
     thread. It is identified by its address on the call stack. The address is
     referred to as the Canonical Frame Address (CFA). The call frame information
     is used to determine the CFA for the call frames of the current thread's
     call stack (see [6.4 Call Frame Information](#call-frame-information)).

     It is required for operations that specify target architecture registers to
     support virtual unwinding of the call stack.

     <i>For example, the `DW_OP_*reg*` operations.</i>

     If specified, it must be an active call frame in the current thread.
     Otherwise the result is undefined.

     If it is the currently executing call frame, then it is termed the top call
     frame.

 4.  <i>A current program location</i>

     The target architecture program location corresponding to the current call
     frame of the current thread.

     The program location of the top call frame is the target architecture
     program counter for the current thread. The call frame information is used
     to obtain the value of the return address register to determine the program
     location of the other call frames (see [6.4 Call Frame
     Information](#call-frame-information)).

     It is required for the evaluation of location list expressions to select
     amongst multiple program location ranges. It is required for operations that
     specify target architecture registers to support virtual unwinding of the
     call stack (see [6.4 Call Frame Information](#call-frame-information)).

     If specified:

     - If the current call frame is the top call frame, it must be the current
       target architecture program location.
     - If the current call frame F is not the top call frame, it must be the
       program location associated with the call site in the current caller frame
       F that invoked the callee frame.
     - Otherwise the result is undefined.

 5.  <i>A current compilation unit</i>

     The compilation unit debug information entry that contains the DWARF
     expression being evaluated.

     It is required for operations that reference debug information associated
     with the same compilation unit, including indicating if such references use
     the 32-bit or 64-bit DWARF format. It can also provide the default address
     space address size if no current target architecture is specified.

     <i>For example, the `DW_OP_constx` and `DW_OP_addrx` operations.</i>

     <i>Note that this compilation unit may not be the same as the compilation
     unit determined from the loaded code object corresponding to the current
     program location. For example, the evaluation of the expression E associated
     with a `DW_AT_location` attribute of the debug information entry operand of
     the `DW_OP_call*` operations is evaluated with the compilation unit that
     contains E and not the one that contains the `DW_OP_call*` operation
     expression.</i>

 6.  <i>A current target architecture</i>

     The target architecture.

     It is required for operations that specify target architecture specific
     entities.

     <i>For example, target architecture specific entities include DWARF register
     identifiers, DWARF address space identifiers, the default address space, and
     the address space address sizes.</i>

     If specified:

     - If the current thread is specified, then the current target architecture
       must be the same as the target architecture of the current thread.
     - If the current compilation unit is specified, then the current target
       architecture default address space address size must be the same as the
       `address_size` field in the header of the current compilation unit and any
       associated entry in the `.debug_aranges` section.
     - If the current program location is specified, then the current target
       architecture must be the same as the target architecture of any line
       number information entry (see [6.2 Line Number
       Information](#line-number-information)) corresponding to the current
       program location.
     - If the current program location is specified, then the current target
       architecture default address space address size must be the same as the
       `address_size` field in the header of any entry corresponding to the
       current program location in the `.debug_addr`, `.debug_line`,
       `.debug_rnglists`, `.debug_rnglists.dwo`, `.debug_loclists`, and
       `.debug_loclists.dwo` sections.
     - Otherwise the result is undefined.

 7.  <i>A current object</i>

     The location description of a program object.

     It is required for the `DW_OP_push_object_address` operation.

     <i>For example, the `DW_AT_data_location` attribute on type debug
     information entries specifies the program object corresponding to a runtime
     descriptor as the current object when it evaluates its associated
     expression.</i>

     The result is undefined if the location descriptor is invalid (see [3.5.3
     DWARF Location Description](#dwarf-location-description)).

 8.  <i>An initial stack</i>

     This is a list of values or location descriptions that will be pushed on the
     operation expression evaluation stack in the order provided before
     evaluation of an operation expression starts.

     Some debugger information entries have attributes that evaluate their DWARF
     expression value with initial stack entries. In all other cases the initial
     stack is empty.

     The result is undefined if any location descriptors are invalid (see [3.5.3
     DWARF Location Description](#dwarf-location-description)).

 If the evaluation requires a context element that is not specified, then the
 result of the evaluation is an error.

 <i>A DWARF expression for a location description may be able to be evaluated
 without a thread, call frame, program location, or architecture context. For
 example, the location of a global variable may be able to be evaluated without
 such context. If the expression evaluates with an error then it may indicate the
 variable has been optimized and so requires more context.</i>

 <i>The DWARF expression for call frame information (see [6.4 Call Frame
 Information](#call-frame-information)) operations are restricted to those
 that do not require the compilation unit context to be specified.</i>

 The DWARF is ill-formed if all the `address_size` fields in the headers of all
 the entries in the `.debug_info`, `.debug_addr`, `.debug_line`,
 `.debug_rnglists`, `.debug_rnglists.dwo`, `.debug_loclists`, and
 `.debug_loclists.dwo` sections corresponding to any given program location do
 not match.

 #### A.2.5.2 DWARF Expression Value

 A value has a type and a literal value. It can represent a literal value of any
 supported base type of the target architecture. The base type specifies the
 size, encoding, and endianity of the literal value.

 > NOTE: It may be desirable to add an implicit pointer base type encoding. It
 > would be used for the type of the value that is produced when the
 > `DW_OP_deref*` operation retrieves the full contents of an implicit pointer
 > location storage created by the `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation. The
 > literal value would record the debugging information entry and byte
 > displacement specified by the associated `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation.

 There is a distinguished base type termed the generic type, which is an integral
 type that has the size of an address in the target architecture default address
 space, a target architecture defined endianity, and unspecified signedness.

 <i>The generic type is the same as the unspecified type used for stack
 operations defined in DWARF Version 4 and before.</i>

 An integral type is a base type that has an encoding of `DW_ATE_signed`,
 `DW_ATE_signed_char`, `DW_ATE_unsigned`, `DW_ATE_unsigned_char`,
 `DW_ATE_boolean`, or any target architecture defined integral encoding in the
 inclusive range `DW_ATE_lo_user` to `DW_ATE_hi_user`.

 > NOTE: It is unclear if `DW_ATE_address` is an integral type. GDB does not seem
 > to consider it as integral.

 #### A.2.5.3 DWARF Location Description

 <i>Debugging information must provide consumers a way to find the location of
 program variables, determine the bounds of dynamic arrays and strings, and
 possibly to find the base address of a subprogram's call frame or the return
 address of a subprogram. Furthermore, to meet the needs of recent computer
 architectures and optimization techniques, debugging information must be able to
 describe the location of an object whose location changes over the object's
 lifetime, and may reside at multiple locations simultaneously during parts of an
 object's lifetime.</i>

 Information about the location of program objects is provided by location
 descriptions.

 Location descriptions can consist of one or more single location descriptions.

 A single location description specifies the location storage that holds a
 program object and a position within the location storage where the program
 object starts. The position within the location storage is expressed as a bit
 offset relative to the start of the location storage.

 A location storage is a linear stream of bits that can hold values. Each
 location storage has a size in bits and can be accessed using a zero-based bit
 offset. The ordering of bits within a location storage uses the bit numbering
 and direction conventions that are appropriate to the current language on the
 target architecture.

 There are five kinds of location storage:

 1.  <i>memory location storage</i>

     Corresponds to the target architecture memory address spaces.

 2.  <i>register location storage</i>

     Corresponds to the target architecture registers.

 3.  <i>implicit location storage</i>

     Corresponds to fixed values that can only be read.

 4.  <i>undefined location storage</i>

     Indicates no value is available and therefore cannot be read or written.

 5.  <i>composite location storage</i>

     Allows a mixture of these where some bits come from one location storage and
     some from another location storage, or from disjoint parts of the same
     location storage.

 > NOTE: It may be better to add an implicit pointer location storage kind used
 > by the `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation. It would specify the debugger
 > information entry and byte offset provided by the operations.

 <i>Location descriptions are a language independent representation of addressing
 rules.</i>

 - <i>They can be the result of evaluating a debugger information entry attribute
   that specifies an operation expression of arbitrary complexity. In this usage
   they can describe the location of an object as long as its lifetime is either
   static or the same as the lexical block (see [3.5 Lexical Block
   Entries](#lexical-block-entries)) that owns it, and it does not move during
   its lifetime.</i>

 - <i>They can be the result of evaluating a debugger information entry attribute
   that specifies a location list expression. In this usage they can describe the
   location of an object that has a limited lifetime, changes its location during
   its lifetime, or has multiple locations over part or all of its lifetime.</i>

 If a location description has more than one single location description, the
 DWARF expression is ill-formed if the object value held in each single location
 description's position within the associated location storage is not the same
 value, except for the parts of the value that are uninitialized.

 <i>A location description that has more than one single location description can
 only be created by a location list expression that has overlapping program
 location ranges, or certain expression operations that act on a location
 description that has more than one single location description. There are no
 operation expression operations that can directly create a location description
 with more than one single location description.</i>

 <i>A location description with more than one single location description can be
 used to describe objects that reside in more than one piece of storage at the
 same time. An object may have more than one location as a result of
 optimization. For example, a value that is only read may be promoted from memory
 to a register for some region of code, but later code may revert to reading the
 value from memory as the register may be used for other purposes. For the code
 region where the value is in a register, any change to the object value must be
 made in both the register and the memory so both regions of code will read the
 updated value.</i>

 <i>A consumer of a location description with more than one single location
 description can read the object's value from any of the single location
 descriptions (since they all refer to location storage that has the same value),
 but must write any changed value to all the single location descriptions.</i>

 Updating a location description L by a bit offset B is defined as adding the
 value of B to the bit offset of each single location description SL of L. It is
 an evaluation error if the updated bit offset of any SL is less than 0 or
 greater than or equal to the size of the location storage specified by SL.

 The evaluation of an expression may require context elements to create a
 location description. If such a location description is accessed, the storage it
 denotes is that associated with the context element values specified when the
 location description was created, which may differ from the context at the time
 it is accessed.

 <i>For example, creating a register location description requires the thread
 context: the location storage is for the specified register of that thread.
 Creating a memory location description for an address space may required a
 thread context: the location storage is the memory associated with that
 thread.</i>

 If any of the context elements required to create a location description change,
 the location description becomes invalid and accessing it is undefined.

 <i>Examples of context that can invalidate a location description are:</i>

 - <i>The thread context is required and execution causes the thread to
   terminate.</i>
 - <i>The call frame context is required and further execution causes the call
   frame to return to the calling frame.</i>
 - <i>The program location is required and further execution of the thread
   occurs. That could change the location list entry or call frame information
   entry that applies.</i>
 - <i>An operation uses call frame information:</i>
   - <i>Any of the frames used in the virtual call frame unwinding return.</i>
   - <i>The top call frame is used, the program location is used to select the
     call frame information entry, and further execution of the thread
     occurs.</i>

 <i>A DWARF expression can be used to compute a location description for an
 object. A subsequent DWARF expression evaluation can be given the object
 location description as the object context or initial stack context to compute a
 component of the object. The final result is undefined if the object location
 description becomes invalid between the two expression evaluations.</i>

 A change of a thread's program location may not make a location description
 invalid, yet may still render it as no longer meaningful. Accessing such a
 location description, or using it as the object context or initial stack context
 of an expression evaluation, may produce an undefined result.

 <i>For example, a location description may specify a register that no longer
 holds the intended program object after a program location change. One way to
 avoid such problems is to recompute location descriptions associated with
 threads when their program locations change.</i>

 #### A.2.5.4 DWARF Operation Expressions

 An operation expression is comprised of a stream of operations, each consisting
 of an opcode followed by zero or more operands. The number of operands is
 implied by the opcode.

 Operations represent a postfix operation on a simple stack machine. Each stack
 entry can hold either a value or a location description. Operations can act on
 entries on the stack, including adding entries and removing entries. If the kind
 of a stack entry does not match the kind required by the operation and is not
 implicitly convertible to the required kind (see [2.5.4.4.3 Memory Location
 Description Operations](#memory-location-description-operations)), then
 the DWARF operation expression is ill-formed.

 Evaluation of an operation expression starts with an empty stack on which the
 entries from the initial stack provided by the context are pushed in the order
 provided. Then the operations are evaluated, starting with the first operation
 of the stream. Evaluation continues until either an operation has an evaluation
 error, or until one past the last operation of the stream is reached.

 The result of the evaluation is:

 - If an operation has an evaluation error, or an operation evaluates an
   expression that has an evaluation error, then the result is an evaluation
   error.
 - If the current result kind specifies a location description, then:
   - If the stack is empty, the result is a location description with one
     undefined location description.

     <i>This rule is for backwards compatibility with DWARF Version 5 which uses
     an empty operation expression for this purpose.</i>

   - If the top stack entry is a location description, or can be converted to one
     (see [2.5.4.4.3 Memory Location Description
     Operations](#memory-location-description-operations)), then the result
     is that, possibly converted, location description. Any other entries on the
     stack are discarded.
   - Otherwise the DWARF expression is ill-formed.

     > NOTE: Could define this case as returning an implicit location description
     > as if the `DW_OP_implicit` operation is performed.

 - If the current result kind specifies a value, then:
   - If the top stack entry is a value, or can be converted to one (see
     [2.5.4.4.3 Memory Location Description
     Operations](#memory-location-description-operations)), then the result is
     that, possibly converted, value. Any other entries on the stack are
     discarded.
   - Otherwise the DWARF expression is ill-formed.
 - If the current result kind is not specified, then:
   - If the stack is empty, the result is a location description with one
     undefined location description.

     <i>This rule is for backwards compatibility with DWARF Version 5 which uses
     an empty operation expression for this purpose.</i>

     > NOTE: This rule is consistent with the rule above for when a location
     > description is requested. However, GDB appears to report this as an error
     > and no GDB tests appear to cause an empty stack for this case.

   - Otherwise, the top stack entry is returned. Any other entries on the stack
     are discarded.

 An operation expression is encoded as a byte block with some form of prefix that
 specifies the byte count. It can be used:

 - as the value of a debugging information entry attribute that is encoded using
   class `exprloc` (see [7.5.5 Classes and Forms](#classes-and-forms)),
 - as the operand to certain operation expression operations,
 - as the operand to certain call frame information operations (see [6.4 Call
   Frame Information](#call-frame-information)),
 - and in location list entries (see [2.5.5 DWARF Location List
   Expressions](#dwarf-location-list-expressions)).

 ##### A.2.5.4.1 Stack Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.3.

 The following operations manipulate the DWARF stack. Operations that index the
 stack assume that the top of the stack (most recently added entry) has index 0.
 They allow the stack entries to be either a value or location description.

 If any stack entry accessed by a stack operation is an incomplete composite
 location description (see [2.5.4.4.6 Composite Location Description
 Operations](#composite-location-description-operations)), then the DWARF
 expression is ill-formed.

 > NOTE: These operations now support stack entries that are values and location
 > descriptions.

 > NOTE: If it is desired to also make them work with incomplete composite
 > location descriptions, then would need to define that the composite location
 > storage specified by the incomplete composite location description is also
 > replicated when a copy is pushed. This ensures that each copy of the
 > incomplete composite location description can update the composite location
 > storage they specify independently.

 1.  `DW_OP_dup`

     `DW_OP_dup` duplicates the stack entry at the top of the stack.

 2.  `DW_OP_drop`

     `DW_OP_drop` pops the stack entry at the top of the stack and discards it.

 3.  `DW_OP_pick`

     `DW_OP_pick` has a single unsigned 1-byte operand that represents an index
     I.  A copy of the stack entry with index I is pushed onto the stack.

 4.  `DW_OP_over`

     `DW_OP_over` pushes a copy of the entry with index 1.

     <i>This is equivalent to a `DW_OP_pick 1` operation.</i>

 5.  `DW_OP_swap`

     `DW_OP_swap` swaps the top two stack entries. The entry at the top of the
     stack becomes the second stack entry, and the second stack entry becomes the
     top of the stack.

 6.  `DW_OP_rot`

     `DW_OP_rot` rotates the first three stack entries. The entry at the top of
     the stack becomes the third stack entry, the second entry becomes the top of
     the stack, and the third entry becomes the second entry.

 ##### A.2.5.4.2 Control Flow Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.5.

 The following operations provide simple control of the flow of a DWARF operation
 expression.

 1.  `DW_OP_nop`

     `DW_OP_nop` is a place holder. It has no effect on the DWARF stack entries.

 2.  `DW_OP_le`, `DW_OP_ge`, `DW_OP_eq`, `DW_OP_lt`, `DW_OP_gt`,
     `DW_OP_ne`

     > NOTE: The same as in DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.5.

 3.  `DW_OP_skip`

     `DW_OP_skip` is an unconditional branch. Its single operand is a 2-byte
     signed integer constant. The 2-byte constant is the number of bytes of the
     DWARF expression to skip forward or backward from the current operation,
     beginning after the 2-byte constant.

     If the updated position is at one past the end of the last operation, then
     the operation expression evaluation is complete.

     Otherwise, the DWARF expression is ill-formed if the updated operation
     position is not in the range of the first to last operation inclusive, or
     not at the start of an operation.

 4.  `DW_OP_bra`

     `DW_OP_bra` is a conditional branch. Its single operand is a 2-byte signed
     integer constant. This operation pops the top of stack. If the value popped
     is not the constant 0, the 2-byte constant operand is the number of bytes of
     the DWARF operation expression to skip forward or backward from the current
     operation, beginning after the 2-byte constant.

     If the updated position is at one past the end of the last operation, then
     the operation expression evaluation is complete.

     Otherwise, the DWARF expression is ill-formed if the updated operation
     position is not in the range of the first to last operation inclusive, or
     not at the start of an operation.

 5.  `DW_OP_call2, DW_OP_call4, DW_OP_call_ref`

     `DW_OP_call2`, `DW_OP_call4`, and `DW_OP_call_ref` perform DWARF procedure
     calls during evaluation of a DWARF expression.

     `DW_OP_call2` and `DW_OP_call4`, have one operand that is, respectively, a
     2-byte or 4-byte unsigned offset DR that represents the byte offset of a
     debugging information entry D relative to the beginning of the current
     compilation unit.

     `DW_OP_call_ref` has one operand that is a 4-byte unsigned value in the
     32-bit DWARF format, or an 8-byte unsigned value in the 64-bit DWARF format,
     that represents the byte offset DR of a debugging information entry D
     relative to the beginning of the `.debug_info` section that contains the
     current compilation unit. D may not be in the current compilation unit.

     > NOTE: DWARF Version 5 states that DR can be an offset in a `.debug_info`
     > section other than the one that contains the current compilation unit. It
     > states that relocation of references from one executable or shared object
     > file to another must be performed by the consumer. But given that DR is
     > defined as an offset in a `.debug_info` section this seems impossible. If
     > DR was defined as an implementation defined value, then the consumer could
     > choose to interpret the value in an implementation defined manner to
     > reference a debug information in another executable or shared object.
     >
     > In ELF the `.debug_info` section is in a non-`PT_LOAD` segment so standard
     > dynamic relocations cannot be used. But even if they were loaded segments
     > and dynamic relocations were used, DR would need to be the address of D,
     > not an offset in a `.debug_info` section. That would also need DR to be
     > the size of a global address. So it would not be possible to use the
     > 32-bit DWARF format in a 64-bit global address space. In addition, the
     > consumer would need to determine what executable or shared object the
     > relocated address was in so it could determine the containing compilation
     > unit.
     >
     > GDB only interprets DR as an offset in the `.debug_info` section that
     > contains the current compilation unit.
     >
     > This comment also applies to `DW_OP_implicit_pointer`.

     <i>Operand interpretation of `DW_OP_call2`, `DW_OP_call4`, and
     `DW_OP_call_ref` is exactly like that for `DW_FORM_ref2`, `DW_FORM_ref4`,
     and `DW_FORM_ref_addr`, respectively.</i>

     The call operation is evaluated by:

     - If D has a `DW_AT_location` attribute that is encoded as a `exprloc` that
       specifies an operation expression E, then execution of the current
       operation expression continues from the first operation of E. Execution
       continues until one past the last operation of E is reached, at which
       point execution continues with the operation following the call operation.
       The operations of E are evaluated with the same current context, except
       current compilation unit is the one that contains D and the stack is the
       same as that being used by the call operation. After the call operation
       has been evaluated, the stack is therefore as it is left by the evaluation
       of the operations of E. Since E is evaluated on the same stack as the call
       operation, E can use, and/or remove entries already on the stack, and can
       add new entries to the stack.

       <i>Values on the stack at the time of the call may be used as parameters
       by the called expression and values left on the stack by the called
       expression may be used as return values by prior agreement between the
       calling and called expressions.</i>

     - If D has a `DW_AT_location` attribute that is encoded as a `loclist` or
       `loclistsptr`, then the specified location list expression E is evaluated.
       The evaluation of E uses the current context, except the result kind is a
       location description, the compilation unit is the one that contains D, and
       the initial stack is empty. The location description result is pushed on
       the stack.

       > NOTE: This rule avoids having to define how to execute a matched
       > location list entry operation expression on the same stack as the call
       > when there are multiple matches. But it allows the call to obtain the
       > location description for a variable or formal parameter which may use a
       > location list expression.
       >
       > An alternative is to treat the case when D has a `DW_AT_location`
       > attribute that is encoded as a `loclist` or `loclistsptr`, and the
       > specified location list expression E' matches a single location list
       > entry with operation expression E, the same as the `exprloc` case and
       > evaluate on the same stack.
       >
       > But this is not attractive as if the attribute is for a variable that
       > happens to end with a non-singleton stack, it will not simply put a
       > location description on the stack. Presumably the intent of using
       > `DW_OP_call*` on a variable or formal parameter debugger information
       > entry is to push just one location description on the stack. That
       > location description may have more than one single location description.
       >
       > The previous rule for `exprloc` also has the same problem, as normally a
       > variable or formal parameter location expression may leave multiple
       > entries on the stack and only return the top entry.
       >
       > GDB implements `DW_OP_call*` by always executing E on the same stack. If
       > the location list has multiple matching entries, it simply picks the
       > first one and ignores the rest. This seems fundamentally at odds with
       > the desire to support multiple places for variables.
       >
       > So, it feels like `DW_OP_call*` should both support pushing a location
       > description on the stack for a variable or formal parameter, and also
       > support being able to execute an operation expression on the same stack.
       > Being able to specify a different operation expression for different
       > program locations seems a desirable feature to retain.
       >
       > A solution to that is to have a distinct `DW_AT_proc` attribute for the
       > `DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure` debugging information entry. Then the
       > `DW_AT_location` attribute expression is always executed separately and
       > pushes a location description (that may have multiple single location
       > descriptions), and the `DW_AT_proc` attribute expression is always
       > executed on the same stack and can leave anything on the stack.
       >
       > The `DW_AT_proc` attribute could have the new classes `exprproc`,
       > `loclistproc`, and `loclistsptrproc` to indicate that the expression is
       > executed on the same stack. `exprproc` is the same encoding as
       > `exprloc`. `loclistproc` and `loclistsptrproc` are the same encoding as
       > their non-`proc` counterparts, except the DWARF is ill-formed if the
       > location list does not match exactly one location list entry and a
       > default entry is required. These forms indicate explicitly that the
       > matched single operation expression must be executed on the same stack.
       > This is better than ad hoc special rules for `loclistproc` and
       > `loclistsptrproc` which are currently clearly defined to always return a
       > location description. The producer then explicitly indicates the intent
       > through the attribute classes.
       >
       > Such a change would be a breaking change for how GDB implements
       > `DW_OP_call*`. However, are the breaking cases actually occurring in
       > practice? GDB could implement the current approach for DWARF Version 5,
       > and the new semantics for DWARF Version 6 which has been done for some
       > other features.
       >
       > Another option is to limit the execution to be on the same stack only to
       > the evaluation of an expression E that is the value of a
       > `DW_AT_location` attribute of a `DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure` debugging
       > information entry. The DWARF would be ill-formed if E is a location list
       > expression that does not match exactly one location list entry. In all
       > other cases the evaluation of an expression E that is the value of a
       > `DW_AT_location` attribute would evaluate E with the current context,
       > except the result kind is a location description, the compilation unit
       > is the one that contains D, and the initial stack is empty. The location
       > description result is pushed on the stack.

     - If D has a `DW_AT_const_value` attribute with a value V, then it is as if
       a `DW_OP_implicit_value V` operation was executed.

       <i>This allows a call operation to be used to compute the location
       description for any variable or formal parameter regardless of whether the
       producer has optimized it to a constant. This is consistent with the
       `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation.</i>

       > NOTE: Alternatively, could deprecate using `DW_AT_const_value` for
       > `DW_TAG_variable` and `DW_TAG_formal_parameter` debugger information
       > entries that are constants and instead use `DW_AT_location` with an
       > operation expression that results in a location description with one
       > implicit location description. Then this rule would not be required.

     - Otherwise, there is no effect and no changes are made to the stack.

       > NOTE: In DWARF Version 5, if D does not have a `DW_AT_location` then
       > `DW_OP_call*` is defined to have no effect. It is unclear that this is
       > the right definition as a producer should be able to rely on using
       > `DW_OP_call*` to get a location description for any
       > non-`DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure` debugging information entries. Also, the
       > producer should not be creating DWARF with `DW_OP_call*` to a
       > `DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure` that does not have a `DW_AT_location`
       > attribute. So, should this case be defined as an ill-formed DWARF
       > expression?

     <i>The `DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure` debugging information entry can be used to
     define DWARF procedures that can be called.</i>

 ##### A.2.5.4.3 Value Operations

 This section describes the operations that push values on the stack.

 Each value stack entry has a type and a literal value. It can represent a
 literal value of any supported base type of the target architecture. The base
 type specifies the size, encoding, and endianity of the literal value.

 The base type of value stack entries can be the distinguished generic type.

 ###### A.2.5.4.3.1 Literal Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.1.

 The following operations all push a literal value onto the DWARF stack.

 Operations other than `DW_OP_const_type` push a value V with the generic type.
 If V is larger than the generic type, then V is truncated to the generic type
 size and the low-order bits used.

 1.  `DW_OP_lit0`, `DW_OP_lit1`, ..., `DW_OP_lit31`

     `DW_OP_lit<N>` operations encode an unsigned literal value N from 0 through
     31, inclusive. They push the value N with the generic type.

 2.  `DW_OP_const1u`, `DW_OP_const2u`, `DW_OP_const4u`, `DW_OP_const8u`

     `DW_OP_const<N>u` operations have a single operand that is a 1, 2, 4, or
     8-byte unsigned integer constant U, respectively. They push the value U with
     the generic type.

 3.  `DW_OP_const1s`, `DW_OP_const2s`, `DW_OP_const4s`, `DW_OP_const8s`

     `DW_OP_const<N>s` operations have a single operand that is a 1, 2, 4, or
     8-byte signed integer constant S, respectively. They push the value S with
     the generic type.

 4.  `DW_OP_constu`

     `DW_OP_constu` has a single unsigned LEB128 integer operand N. It pushes the
     value N with the generic type.

 5.  `DW_OP_consts`

     `DW_OP_consts` has a single signed LEB128 integer operand N. It pushes the
     value N with the generic type.

 6.  `DW_OP_constx`

     `DW_OP_constx` has a single unsigned LEB128 integer operand that represents
     a zero-based index into the `.debug_addr` section relative to the value of
     the `DW_AT_addr_base` attribute of the associated compilation unit. The
     value N in the `.debug_addr` section has the size of the generic type. It
     pushes the value N with the generic type.

     <i>The `DW_OP_constx` operation is provided for constants that require
     link-time relocation but should not be interpreted by the consumer as a
     relocatable address (for example, offsets to thread-local storage).</i>

 7.  `DW_OP_const_type`

     `DW_OP_const_type` has three operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128
     integer DR that represents the byte offset of a debugging information entry
     D relative to the beginning of the current compilation unit, that provides
     the type T of the constant value. The second is a 1-byte unsigned integral
     constant S. The third is a block of bytes B, with a length equal to S.

     TS is the bit size of the type T. The least significant TS bits of B are
     interpreted as a value V of the type D. It pushes the value V with the type
     D.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if D is not a `DW_TAG_base_type` debugging
     information entry in the current compilation unit, or if TS divided by 8
     (the byte size) and rounded up to a whole number is not equal to S.

     <i>While the size of the byte block B can be inferred from the type D
     definition, it is encoded explicitly into the operation so that the
     operation can be parsed easily without reference to the `.debug_info`
     section.</i>

 ###### A.2.5.4.3.2 Arithmetic and Logical Operations

 > NOTE: This section is the same as DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.4.

 ###### A.2.5.4.3.3 Type Conversion Operations

 > NOTE: This section is the same as DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.6.

 ###### A.2.5.4.3.4 Special Value Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces parts of DWARF Version 5 sections 2.5.1.2,
   2.5.1.3, and 2.5.1.7.

 There are these special value operations currently defined:

 1.  `DW_OP_regval_type`

     `DW_OP_regval_type` has two operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128
     integer that represents a register number R. The second is an unsigned
     LEB128 integer DR that represents the byte offset of a debugging information
     entry D relative to the beginning of the current compilation unit, that
     provides the type T of the register value.

     The operation is equivalent to performing `DW_OP_regx R; DW_OP_deref_type
     DR`.

     > NOTE: Should DWARF allow the type T to be a larger size than the size of
     > the register R? Restricting a larger bit size avoids any issue of
     > conversion as the, possibly truncated, bit contents of the register is
     > simply interpreted as a value of T. If a conversion is wanted it can be
     > done explicitly using a `DW_OP_convert` operation.
     >
     > GDB has a per register hook that allows a target specific conversion on a
     > register by register basis. It defaults to truncation of bigger registers.
     > Removing use of the target hook does not cause any test failures in common
     > architectures. If the compiler for a target architecture did want some
     > form of conversion, including a larger result type, it could always
     > explicitly used the `DW_OP_convert` operation.
     >
     > If T is a larger type than the register size, then the default GDB
     > register hook reads bytes from the next register (or reads out of bounds
     > for the last register!). Removing use of the target hook does not cause
     > any test failures in common architectures (except an illegal hand written
     > assembly test). If a target architecture requires this behavior, these
     > extensions allow a composite location description to be used to combine
     > multiple registers.

 2.  `DW_OP_deref`

     S is the bit size of the generic type divided by 8 (the byte size) and
     rounded up to a whole number. DR is the offset of a hypothetical debug
     information entry D in the current compilation unit for a base type of the
     generic type.

     The operation is equivalent to performing `DW_OP_deref_type S, DR`.

 3.  `DW_OP_deref_size`

     `DW_OP_deref_size` has a single 1-byte unsigned integral constant that
     represents a byte result size S.

     TS is the smaller of the generic type bit size and S scaled by 8 (the byte
     size). If TS is smaller than the generic type bit size then T is an unsigned
     integral type of bit size TS, otherwise T is the generic type. DR is the
     offset of a hypothetical debug information entry D in the current
     compilation unit for a base type T.

     > NOTE: Truncating the value when S is larger than the generic type matches
     > what GDB does. This allows the generic type size to not be an integral
     > byte size. It does allow S to be arbitrarily large. Should S be restricted
     > to the size of the generic type rounded up to a multiple of 8?

     The operation is equivalent to performing `DW_OP_deref_type S, DR`, except
     if T is not the generic type, the value V pushed is zero-extended to the
     generic type bit size and its type changed to the generic type.

 4.  `DW_OP_deref_type`

     `DW_OP_deref_type` has two operands. The first is a 1-byte unsigned integral
     constant S. The second is an unsigned LEB128 integer DR that represents the
     byte offset of a debugging information entry D relative to the beginning of
     the current compilation unit, that provides the type T of the result value.

     TS is the bit size of the type T.

     <i>While the size of the pushed value V can be inferred from the type T, it
     is encoded explicitly as the operand S so that the operation can be parsed
     easily without reference to the `.debug_info` section.</i>

     > NOTE: It is unclear why the operand S is needed. Unlike
     > `DW_OP_const_type`, the size is not needed for parsing. Any evaluation
     > needs to get the base type T to push with the value to know its encoding
     > and bit size.

     It pops one stack entry that must be a location description L.

     A value V of TS bits is retrieved from the location storage LS specified by
     one of the single location descriptions SL of L.

     <i>If L, or the location description of any composite location description
     part that is a subcomponent of L, has more than one single location
     description, then any one of them can be selected as they are required to
     all have the same value. For any single location description SL, bits are
     retrieved from the associated storage location starting at the bit offset
     specified by SL. For a composite location description, the retrieved bits
     are the concatenation of the N bits from each composite location part PL,
     where N is limited to the size of PL.</i>

     V is pushed on the stack with the type T.

     > NOTE: This definition makes it an evaluation error if L is a register
     > location description that has less than TS bits remaining in the register
     > storage. Particularly since these extensions extend location descriptions
     > to have a bit offset, it would be odd to define this as performing sign
     > extension based on the type, or be target architecture dependent, as the
     > number of remaining bits could be any number. This matches the GDB
     > implementation for `DW_OP_deref_type`.
     >
     > These extensions define `DW_OP_*breg*` in terms of `DW_OP_regval_type`.
     > `DW_OP_regval_type` is defined in terms of `DW_OP_regx`, which uses a 0
     > bit offset, and `DW_OP_deref_type`. Therefore, it requires the register
     > size to be greater or equal to the address size of the address space. This
     > matches the GDB implementation for `DW_OP_*breg*`.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if D is not in the current compilation unit, D is
     not a `DW_TAG_base_type` debugging information entry, or if TS divided by 8
     (the byte size) and rounded up to a whole number is not equal to S.

     > NOTE: This definition allows the base type to be a bit size since there
     > seems no reason to restrict it.

     It is an evaluation error if any bit of the value is retrieved from the
     undefined location storage or the offset of any bit exceeds the size of the
     location storage LS specified by any single location description SL of L.

     See [2.5.4.4.5 Implicit Location Description
     Operations](#implicit-location-description-operations) for special
     rules concerning implicit location descriptions created by the
     `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation.

 5.  `DW_OP_xderef`

     `DW_OP_xderef` pops two stack entries. The first must be an integral type
     value that represents an address A. The second must be an integral type
     value that represents a target architecture specific address space
     identifier AS.

     The address size S is defined as the address bit size of the target
     architecture specific address space that corresponds to AS.

     A is adjusted to S bits by zero extending if necessary, and then treating
     the least significant S bits as an unsigned value A'.

     It creates a location description L with one memory location description SL.
     SL specifies the memory location storage LS that corresponds to AS with a
     bit offset equal to A' scaled by 8 (the byte size).

     If AS is an address space that is specific to context elements, then LS
     corresponds to the location storage associated with the current context.

     <i>For example, if AS is for per thread storage then LS is the location
     storage for the current thread. Therefore, if L is accessed by an operation,
     the location storage selected when the location description was created is
     accessed, and not the location storage associated with the current context
     of the access operation.</i>

     The DWARF expression is ill-formed if AS is not one of the values defined by
     the target architecture specific `DW_ASPACE_*` values.

     The operation is equivalent to popping A and AS, pushing L, and then
     performing `DW_OP_deref`. The value V retrieved is left on the stack with
     the generic type.

 6.  `DW_OP_xderef_size`

     `DW_OP_xderef_size` has a single 1-byte unsigned integral constant that
     represents a byte result size S.

     It pops two stack entries. The first must be an integral type value
     that represents an address A. The second must be an integral type
     value that represents a target architecture specific address space
     identifier AS.

     It creates a location description L as described for `DW_OP_xderef`.

     The operation is equivalent to popping A and AS, pushing L, and then
     performing `DW_OP_deref_size S` . The zero-extended value V retrieved is
     left on the stack with the generic type.

 7.  `DW_OP_xderef_type`

     `DW_OP_xderef_type` has two operands. The first is a 1-byte unsigned
     integral constant S. The second operand is an unsigned LEB128 integer DR
     that represents the byte offset of a debugging information entry D relative
     to the beginning of the current compilation unit, that provides the type T
     of the result value.

     It pops two stack entries. The first must be an integral type value that
     represents an address A. The second must be an integral type value that
     represents a target architecture specific address space identifier AS.

     It creates a location description L as described for `DW_OP_xderef`.

     The operation is equivalent to popping A and AS, pushing L, and then
     performing `DW_OP_deref_type DR` . The value V retrieved is left on the
     stack with the type T.

 8.  `DW_OP_entry_value` <i>Deprecated</i>

     `DW_OP_entry_value` pushes the value of an expression that is evaluated in
     the context of the calling frame.

     <i>It may be used to determine the value of arguments on entry to the
     current call frame provided they are not clobbered.</i>

     It has two operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128 integer S. The second
     is a block of bytes, with a length equal S, interpreted as a DWARF operation
     expression E.

     E is evaluated with the current context, except the result kind is
     unspecified, the call frame is the one that called the current frame, the
     program location is the call site in the calling frame, the object is
     unspecified, and the initial stack is empty. The calling frame information
     is obtained by virtually unwinding the current call frame using the call
     frame information (see [6.4 Call Frame
     Information](#call-frame-information)).

     If the result of E is a location description L (see [2.5.4.4.4 Register
     Location Description
     Operations](#register-location-description-operations)), and the last
     operation executed by E is a `DW_OP_reg*` for register R with a target
     architecture specific base type of T, then the contents of the register are
     retrieved as if a `DW_OP_deref_type DR` operation was performed where DR is
     the offset of a hypothetical debug information entry in the current
     compilation unit for T. The resulting value V s pushed on the stack.

     <i>Using `DW_OP_reg*` provides a more compact form for the case where the
     value was in a register on entry to the subprogram.</i>

     > NOTE: It is unclear how this provides a more compact expression, as
     > `DW_OP_regval_type` could be used which is marginally larger.

     If the result of E is a value V, then V is pushed on the stack.

     Otherwise, the DWARF expression is ill-formed.

     <i>The `DW_OP_entry_value` operation is deprecated as its main usage is
     provided by other means. DWARF Version 5 added the
     `DW_TAG_call_site_parameter` debugger information entry for call sites that
     has `DW_AT_call_value`, `DW_AT_call_data_location`, and
     `DW_AT_call_data_value` attributes that provide DWARF expressions to compute
     actual parameter values at the time of the call, and requires the producer
     to ensure the expressions are valid to evaluate even when virtually
     unwound.</i>

     > NOTE: GDB only implements `DW_OP_entry_value` when E is exactly
     > `DW_OP_reg*` or `DW_OP_breg*; DW_OP_deref*`.

 ##### A.2.5.4.4 Location Description Operations

 This section describes the operations that push location descriptions on the
 stack.

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.1 General Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces part of DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.3.

 1.  `DW_OP_push_object_address`

     `DW_OP_push_object_address` pushes the location description L of the current
     object.

     <i>This object may correspond to an independent variable that is part of a
     user presented expression that is being evaluated. The object location
     description may be determined from the variable's own debugging information
     entry or it may be a component of an array, structure, or class whose
     address has been dynamically determined by an earlier step during user
     expression evaluation.</i>

     <i>This operation provides explicit functionality (especially for arrays
     involving descriptors) that is analogous to the implicit push of the base
     location description of a structure prior to evaluation of a
     `DW_AT_data_member_location` to access a data member of a structure.</i>

     > NOTE: This operation could be removed and the object location description
     > specified as the initial stack as for `DW_AT_data_member_location`.
     >
     > Or this operation could be used instead of needing to specify an initial
     > stack. The latter approach is more composable as access to the object may
     > be needed at any point of the expression, and passing it as the initial
     > stack requires the entire expression to be aware where on the stack it is.
     > If this were done, ``DW_AT_use_location`` would require a
     > ``DW_OP_push_object2_address`` operation for the second object.
     >
     > Or a more general way to pass an arbitrary number of arguments in and an
     > operation to get the Nth one such as ``DW_OP_arg N``. A vector of
     > arguments would then be passed in the expression context rather than an
     > initial stack. This could also resolve the issues with ``DW_OP_call*`` by
     > allowing a specific number of arguments passed in and returned to be
     > specified. The ``DW_OP_call*`` operation could then always execute on a
     > separate stack: the number of arguments would be specified in a new call
     > operation and taken from the callers stack, and similarly the number of
     > return results specified and copied from the called stack back to the
     > callee stack when the called expression was complete.
     >
     > The only attribute that specifies a current object is
     > `DW_AT_data_location` so the non-normative text seems to overstate how
     > this is being used. Or are there other attributes that need to state they
     > pass an object?

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.2 Undefined Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.1.1.1.

 <i>The undefined location storage represents a piece or all of an object that is
 present in the source but not in the object code (perhaps due to optimization).
 Neither reading nor writing to the undefined location storage is meaningful.</i>

 An undefined location description specifies the undefined location storage.
 There is no concept of the size of the undefined location storage, nor of a bit
 offset for an undefined location description. The `DW_OP_*piece` operations can
 implicitly specify an undefined location description, allowing any size and
 offset to be specified, and results in a part with all undefined bits.

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.3 Memory Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces parts of DWARF Version 5 section 2.5.1.1, 2.5.1.2,
 > 2.5.1.3, and 2.6.1.1.2.

 Each of the target architecture specific address spaces has a corresponding
 memory location storage that denotes the linear addressable memory of that
 address space. The size of each memory location storage corresponds to the range
 of the addresses in the corresponding address space.

 <i>It is target architecture defined how address space location storage maps to
 target architecture physical memory. For example, they may be independent
 memory, or more than one location storage may alias the same physical memory
 possibly at different offsets and with different interleaving. The mapping may
 also be dictated by the source language address classes.</i>

 A memory location description specifies a memory location storage. The bit
 offset corresponds to a bit position within a byte of the memory. Bits accessed
 using a memory location description, access the corresponding target
 architecture memory starting at the bit position within the byte specified by
 the bit offset.

 A memory location description that has a bit offset that is a multiple of 8 (the
 byte size) is defined to be a byte address memory location description. It has a
 memory byte address A that is equal to the bit offset divided by 8.

 A memory location description that does not have a bit offset that is a multiple
 of 8 (the byte size) is defined to be a bit field memory location description.
 It has a bit position B equal to the bit offset modulo 8, and a memory byte
 address A equal to the bit offset minus B that is then divided by 8.

 The address space AS of a memory location description is defined to be the
 address space that corresponds to the memory location storage associated with
 the memory location description.

 A location description that is comprised of one byte address memory location
 description SL is defined to be a memory byte address location description. It
 has a byte address equal to A and an address space equal to AS of the
 corresponding SL.

 `DW_ASPACE_none` is defined as the target architecture default address space.

 If a stack entry is required to be a location description, but it is a value V
 with the generic type, then it is implicitly converted to a location description
 L with one memory location description SL. SL specifies the memory location
 storage that corresponds to the target architecture default address space with a
 bit offset equal to V scaled by 8 (the byte size).

 > NOTE: If it is wanted to allow any integral type value to be implicitly
 > converted to a memory location description in the target architecture default
 > address space:
 >
 > > If a stack entry is required to be a location description, but is a value V
 > > with an integral type, then it is implicitly converted to a location
 > > description L with a one memory location description SL. If the type size of
 > > V is less than the generic type size, then the value V is zero extended to
 > > the size of the generic type. The least significant generic type size bits
 > > are treated as an unsigned value to be used as an address A. SL specifies
 > > memory location storage corresponding to the target architecture default
 > > address space with a bit offset equal to A scaled by 8 (the byte size).
 >
 > The implicit conversion could also be defined as target architecture specific.
 > For example, GDB checks if V is an integral type. If it is not it gives an
 > error. Otherwise, GDB zero-extends V to 64 bits. If the GDB target defines a
 > hook function, then it is called. The target specific hook function can modify
 > the 64-bit value, possibly sign extending based on the original value type.
 > Finally, GDB treats the 64-bit value V as a memory location address.

 If a stack entry is required to be a location description, but it is an implicit
 pointer value IPV with the target architecture default address space, then it is
 implicitly converted to a location description with one single location
 description specified by IPV. See [2.5.4.4.5 Implicit Location Description
 Operations](#implicit-location-description-operations).

 If a stack entry is required to be a value, but it is a location description L
 with one memory location description SL in the target architecture default
 address space with a bit offset B that is a multiple of 8, then it is implicitly
 converted to a value equal to B divided by 8 (the byte size) with the generic
 type.

 1.  `DW_OP_addr`

     `DW_OP_addr` has a single byte constant value operand, which has the size of
     the generic type, that represents an address A.

     It pushes a location description L with one memory location description SL
     on the stack. SL specifies the memory location storage corresponding to the
     target architecture default address space with a bit offset equal to A
     scaled by 8 (the byte size).

     <i>If the DWARF is part of a code object, then A may need to be relocated.
     For example, in the ELF code object format, A must be adjusted by the
     difference between the ELF segment virtual address and the virtual address
     at which the segment is loaded.</i>

 2.  `DW_OP_addrx`

     `DW_OP_addrx` has a single unsigned LEB128 integer operand that represents a
     zero-based index into the `.debug_addr` section relative to the value of the
     `DW_AT_addr_base` attribute of the associated compilation unit. The address
     value A in the `.debug_addr` section has the size of the generic type.

     It pushes a location description L with one memory location description SL
     on the stack. SL specifies the memory location storage corresponding to the
     target architecture default address space with a bit offset equal to A
     scaled by 8 (the byte size).

     <i>If the DWARF is part of a code object, then A may need to be relocated.
     For example, in the ELF code object format, A must be adjusted by the
     difference between the ELF segment virtual address and the virtual address
     at which the segment is loaded.</i>

 3.  `DW_OP_form_tls_address`

     `DW_OP_form_tls_address` pops one stack entry that must be an integral type
     value and treats it as a thread-local storage address TA.

     It pushes a location description L with one memory location description SL
     on the stack. SL is the target architecture specific memory location
     description that corresponds to the thread-local storage address TA.

     The meaning of the thread-local storage address TA is defined by the
     run-time environment. If the run-time environment supports multiple
     thread-local storage blocks for a single thread, then the block
     corresponding to the executable or shared library containing this DWARF
     expression is used.

     <i>Some implementations of C, C++, Fortran, and other languages support a
     thread-local storage class. Variables with this storage class have distinct
     values and addresses in distinct threads, much as automatic variables have
     distinct values and addresses in each subprogram invocation. Typically,
     there is a single block of storage containing all thread-local variables
     declared in the main executable, and a separate block for the variables
     declared in each shared library. Each thread-local variable can then be
     accessed in its block using an identifier. This identifier is typically a
     byte offset into the block and pushed onto the DWARF stack by one of the
     `DW_OP_const*` operations prior to the `DW_OP_form_tls_address` operation.
     Computing the address of the appropriate block can be complex (in some
     cases, the compiler emits a function call to do it), and difficult to
     describe using ordinary DWARF location descriptions. Instead of forcing
     complex thread-local storage calculations into the DWARF expressions, the
     `DW_OP_form_tls_address` allows the consumer to perform the computation
     based on the target architecture specific run-time environment.</i>

 4.  `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa`

     `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa` pushes the location description L of the Canonical
     Frame Address (CFA) of the current subprogram, obtained from the call frame
     information on the stack. See [6.4 Call Frame
     Information](#call-frame-information).

     <i>Although the value of the `DW_AT_frame_base` attribute of the debugger
     information entry corresponding to the current subprogram can be computed
     using a location list expression, in some cases this would require an
     extensive location list because the values of the registers used in
     computing the CFA change during a subprogram execution. If the call frame
     information is present, then it already encodes such changes, and it is
     space efficient to reference that using the `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa`
     operation.</i>

 5.  `DW_OP_fbreg`

     `DW_OP_fbreg` has a single signed LEB128 integer operand that represents a
     byte displacement B.

     The location description L for the <i>frame base</i> of the current
     subprogram is obtained from the `DW_AT_frame_base` attribute of the debugger
     information entry corresponding to the current subprogram as described in
     [3.3.5 Low-Level Information](#low-level-information).

     The location description L is updated by bit offset B scaled by 8 (the byte
     size) and pushed on the stack.

 6.  `DW_OP_breg0`, `DW_OP_breg1`, ..., `DW_OP_breg31`

     The `DW_OP_breg<N>` operations encode the numbers of up to 32 registers,
     numbered from 0 through 31, inclusive. The register number R corresponds to
     the N in the operation name.

     They have a single signed LEB128 integer operand that represents a byte
     displacement B.

     The address space identifier AS is defined as the one corresponding to the
     target architecture specific default address space.

     The address size S is defined as the address bit size of the target
     architecture specific address space corresponding to AS.

     The contents of the register specified by R are retrieved as if a
     `DW_OP_regval_type R, DR` operation was performed where DR is the offset of
     a hypothetical debug information entry in the current compilation unit for
     an unsigned integral base type of size S bits. B is added and the least
     significant S bits are treated as an unsigned value to be used as an address
     A.

     They push a location description L comprising one memory location
     description LS on the stack. LS specifies the memory location storage that
     corresponds to AS with a bit offset equal to A scaled by 8 (the byte size).

 7.  `DW_OP_bregx`

     `DW_OP_bregx` has two operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128 integer that
     represents a register number R. The second is a signed LEB128 integer that
     represents a byte displacement B.

     The action is the same as for `DW_OP_breg<N>`, except that R is used as the
     register number and B is used as the byte displacement.

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.4 Register Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.1.1.3.

 There is a register location storage that corresponds to each of the target
 architecture registers. The size of each register location storage corresponds
 to the size of the corresponding target architecture register.

 A register location description specifies a register location storage. The bit
 offset corresponds to a bit position within the register. Bits accessed using a
 register location description access the corresponding target architecture
 register starting at the specified bit offset.

 1.  `DW_OP_reg0`, `DW_OP_reg1`, ..., `DW_OP_reg31`

     `DW_OP_reg<N>` operations encode the numbers of up to 32 registers, numbered
     from 0 through 31, inclusive. The target architecture register number R
     corresponds to the N in the operation name.

     The operation is equivalent to performing `DW_OP_regx R`.

 2.  `DW_OP_regx`

     `DW_OP_regx` has a single unsigned LEB128 integer operand that represents a
     target architecture register number R.

     If the current call frame is the top call frame, it pushes a location
     description L that specifies one register location description SL on the
     stack. SL specifies the register location storage that corresponds to R with
     a bit offset of 0 for the current thread.

     If the current call frame is not the top call frame, call frame information
     (see [6.4 Call Frame Information](#call-frame-information)) is used to
     determine the location description that holds the register for the current
     call frame and current program location of the current thread. The resulting
     location description L is pushed.

     <i>Note that if call frame information is used, the resulting location
     description may be register, memory, or undefined.</i>

     <i>An implementation may evaluate the call frame information immediately, or
     may defer evaluation until L is accessed by an operation. If evaluation is
     deferred, R and the current context can be recorded in L. When accessed, the
     recorded context is used to evaluate the call frame information, not the
     current context of the access operation.</i>

 <i>These operations obtain a register location. To fetch the contents of a
 register, it is necessary to use `DW_OP_regval_type`, use one of the
 `DW_OP_breg*` register-based addressing operations, or use `DW_OP_deref*` on a
 register location description.</i>

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.5 Implicit Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.1.1.4.

 Implicit location storage represents a piece or all of an object which has no
 actual location in the program but whose contents are nonetheless known, either
 as a constant or can be computed from other locations and values in the program.

 An implicit location description specifies an implicit location storage. The bit
 offset corresponds to a bit position within the implicit location storage. Bits
 accessed using an implicit location description, access the corresponding
 implicit storage value starting at the bit offset.

 1.  `DW_OP_implicit_value`

     `DW_OP_implicit_value` has two operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128
     integer that represents a byte size S. The second is a block of bytes with a
     length equal to S treated as a literal value V.

     An implicit location storage LS is created with the literal value V and a
     size of S.

     It pushes location description L with one implicit location description SL
     on the stack. SL specifies LS with a bit offset of 0.

 2.  `DW_OP_stack_value`

     `DW_OP_stack_value` pops one stack entry that must be a value V.

     An implicit location storage LS is created with the literal value V using
     the size, encoding, and enianity specified by V's base type.

     It pushes a location description L with one implicit location description SL
     on the stack. SL specifies LS with a bit offset of 0.

     <i>The `DW_OP_stack_value` operation specifies that the object does not
     exist in memory, but its value is nonetheless known. In this form, the
     location description specifies the actual value of the object, rather than
     specifying the memory or register storage that holds the value.</i>

     See [2.5.4.4.5 Implicit Location Description
     Operations](#implicit-location-description-operations) for special
     rules concerning implicit pointer values produced by dereferencing implicit
     location descriptions created by the `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation.

     > NOTE: Since location descriptions are allowed on the stack, the
     > `DW_OP_stack_value` operation no longer terminates the DWARF operation
     > expression execution as in DWARF Version 5.

 3.  `DW_OP_implicit_pointer`

     <i>An optimizing compiler may eliminate a pointer, while still retaining the
     value that the pointer addressed. `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` allows a producer
     to describe this value.</i>

     <i>`DW_OP_implicit_pointer` specifies an object is a pointer to the target
     architecture default address space that cannot be represented as a real
     pointer, even though the value it would point to can be described. In this
     form, the location description specifies a debugging information entry that
     represents the actual location description of the object to which the
     pointer would point. Thus, a consumer of the debug information would be able
     to access the dereferenced pointer, even when it cannot access the pointer
     itself.</i>

     `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` has two operands. The first operand is a 4-byte
     unsigned value in the 32-bit DWARF format, or an 8-byte unsigned value in
     the 64-bit DWARF format, that represents the byte offset DR of a debugging
     information entry D relative to the beginning of the `.debug_info` section
     that contains the current compilation unit. The second operand is a signed
     LEB128 integer that represents a byte displacement B.

     <i>Note that D may not be in the current compilation unit.</i>

     <i>The first operand interpretation is exactly like that for
     `DW_FORM_ref_addr`.</i>

     The address space identifier AS is defined as the one corresponding to the
     target architecture specific default address space.

     The address size S is defined as the address bit size of the target
     architecture specific address space corresponding to AS.

     An implicit location storage LS is created with the debugging information
     entry D, address space AS, and size of S.

     It pushes a location description L that comprises one implicit location
     description SL on the stack. SL specifies LS with a bit offset of 0.

     It is an evaluation error if a `DW_OP_deref*` operation pops a location
     description L', and retrieves S bits, such that any retrieved bits come from
     an implicit location storage that is the same as LS, unless both the
     following conditions are met:

     1.  All retrieved bits come from an implicit location description that
         refers to an implicit location storage that is the same as LS.

         <i>Note that all bits do not have to come from the same implicit
         location description, as L' may involve composite location
         descriptors.</i>

     2.  The bits come from consecutive ascending offsets within their respective
         implicit location storage.

     <i>These rules are equivalent to retrieving the complete contents of LS.</i>

     If both the above conditions are met, then the value V pushed by the
     `DW_OP_deref*` operation is an implicit pointer value IPV with a target
     architecture specific address space of AS, a debugging information entry of
     D, and a base type of T. If AS is the target architecture default address
     space, then T is the generic type. Otherwise, T is a target architecture
     specific integral type with a bit size equal to S.

     If IPV is either implicitly converted to a location description (only done
     if AS is the target architecture default address space), then the resulting
     location description RL is:

     - If D has a `DW_AT_location` attribute, the DWARF expression E from the
       `DW_AT_location` attribute is evaluated with the current context, except
       that the result kind is a location description, the compilation unit is
       the one that contains D, the object is unspecified, and the initial stack
       is empty. RL is the expression result.

       <i>Note that E is evaluated with the context of the expression accessing
       IPV, and not the context of the expression that contained the
       `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation that created L.</i>

     - If D has a `DW_AT_const_value` attribute, then an implicit location
       storage RLS is created from the `DW_AT_const_value` attribute's value with
       a size matching the size of the `DW_AT_const_value` attribute's value. RL
       comprises one implicit location description SRL. SRL specifies RLS with a
       bit offset of 0.

       > NOTE: If using `DW_AT_const_value` for variables and formal parameters
       > is deprecated and instead `DW_AT_location` is used with an implicit
       > location description, then this rule would not be required.

     - Otherwise, it is an evaluation error.

     The location description RL is updated by bit offset B scaled by 8 (the byte
     size).

     If a `DW_OP_stack_value` operation pops a value that is the same as IPV,
     then it pushes a location description that is the same as L.

     It is an evaluation error if LS or IPV is accessed in any other manner.

     <i>The restrictions on how an implicit pointer location description created
     by `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` can be used are to simplify the DWARF consumer.
     Similarly, for an implicit pointer value created by `DW_OP_deref*` and
     `DW_OP_stack_value`.</i>

 <i>Typically a `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation is used in a DWARF expression
 E<sub>1</sub> of a `DW_TAG_variable` or `DW_TAG_formal_parameter` debugging
 information entry D<sub>1</sub>'s `DW_AT_location` attribute. The debugging
 information entry referenced by the `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation is
 typically itself a `DW_TAG_variable` or `DW_TAG_formal_parameter` debugging
 information entry D<sub>2</sub> whose `DW_AT_location` attribute gives a second
 DWARF expression E<sub>2</sub>.</i>

 <i>D<sub>1</sub> and E<sub>1</sub> are describing the location of a pointer type
 object. D<sub>2</sub> and E<sub>2</sub> are describing the location of the
 object pointed to by that pointer object.</i>

 <i>However, D<sub>2</sub> may be any debugging information entry that contains a
 `DW_AT_location` or `DW_AT_const_value` attribute (for example,
 `DW_TAG_dwarf_procedure`). By using E<sub>2</sub>, a consumer can reconstruct
 the value of the object when asked to dereference the pointer described by
 E<sub>1</sub> which contains the `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation.</i>

 ###### A.2.5.4.4.6 Composite Location Description Operations

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.1.2.

 A composite location storage represents an object or value which may be
 contained in part of another location storage or contained in parts of more than
 one location storage.

 Each part has a part location description L and a part bit size S. L can have
 one or more single location descriptions SL. If there are more than one SL then
 that indicates that part is located in more than one place. The bits of each
 place of the part comprise S contiguous bits from the location storage LS
 specified by SL starting at the bit offset specified by SL. All the bits must be
 within the size of LS or the DWARF expression is ill-formed.

 A composite location storage can have zero or more parts. The parts are
 contiguous such that the zero-based location storage bit index will range over
 each part with no gaps between them. Therefore, the size of a composite location
 storage is the sum of the size of its parts. The DWARF expression is ill-formed
 if the size of the contiguous location storage is larger than the size of the
 memory location storage corresponding to the largest target architecture
 specific address space.

 A composite location description specifies a composite location storage. The bit
 offset corresponds to a bit position within the composite location storage.

 There are operations that create a composite location storage.

 There are other operations that allow a composite location storage to be
 incrementally created. Each part is created by a separate operation. There may
 be one or more operations to create the final composite location storage. A
 series of such operations describes the parts of the composite location storage
 that are in the order that the associated part operations are executed.

 To support incremental creation, a composite location storage can be in an
 incomplete state. When an incremental operation operates on an incomplete
 composite location storage, it adds a new part.

 A composite location description that specifies a composite location storage
 that is incomplete is termed an incomplete composite location description. A
 composite location description that specifies a composite location storage that
 is complete is termed a complete composite location description.

 If the top stack entry is a location description that has one incomplete
 composite location description SL after the execution of an operation expression
 has completed, SL is converted to a complete composite location description.

 <i>Note that this conversion does not happen after the completion of an
 operation expression that is evaluated on the same stack by the `DW_OP_call*`
 operations. Such executions are not a separate evaluation of an operation
 expression, but rather the continued evaluation of the same operation expression
 that contains the `DW_OP_call*` operation.</i>

 If a stack entry is required to be a location description L, but L has an
 incomplete composite location description, then the DWARF expression is
 ill-formed. The exception is for the operations involved in incrementally
 creating a composite location description as described below.

 <i>Note that a DWARF operation expression may arbitrarily compose composite
 location descriptions from any other location description, including those that
 have multiple single location descriptions, and those that have composite
 location descriptions.</i>

 <i>The incremental composite location description operations are defined to be
 compatible with the definitions in DWARF Version 5.</i>

 1.  `DW_OP_piece`

     `DW_OP_piece` has a single unsigned LEB128 integer that represents a byte
     size S.

     The action is based on the context:

     - If the stack is empty, then a location description L comprised of one
       incomplete composite location description SL is pushed on the stack.

       An incomplete composite location storage LS is created with a single part
       P. P specifies a location description PL and has a bit size of S scaled by
       8 (the byte size). PL is comprised of one undefined location description
       PSL.

       SL specifies LS with a bit offset of 0.

     - Otherwise, if the top stack entry is a location description L comprised of
       one incomplete composite location description SL, then the incomplete
       composite location storage LS that SL specifies is updated to append a new
       part P. P specifies a location description PL and has a bit size of S
       scaled by 8 (the byte size). PL is comprised of one undefined location
       description PSL. L is left on the stack.
     - Otherwise, if the top stack entry is a location description or can be
       converted to one, then it is popped and treated as a part location
       description PL. Then:

       - If the top stack entry (after popping PL) is a location description L
         comprised of one incomplete composite location description SL, then the
         incomplete composite location storage LS that SL specifies is updated to
         append a new part P. P specifies the location description PL and has a
         bit size of S scaled by 8 (the byte size). L is left on the stack.
       - Otherwise, a location description L comprised of one
         incomplete composite location description SL is pushed on
         the stack.

         An incomplete composite location storage LS is created with a single
         part P. P specifies the location description PL and has a bit size of S
         scaled by 8 (the byte size).

         SL specifies LS with a bit offset of 0.

     - Otherwise, the DWARF expression is ill-formed

     <i>Many compilers store a single variable in sets of registers or store a
     variable partially in memory and partially in registers. `DW_OP_piece`
     provides a way of describing where a part of a variable is located.</i>

     <i>The evaluation rules for the `DW_OP_piece` operation allow it to be
     compatible with the DWARF Version 5 definition.</i>

     > NOTE: Since these extensions allow location descriptions to be entries on
     > the stack, a simpler operation to create composite location descriptions
     > could be defined. For example, just one operation that specifies how many
     > parts, and pops pairs of stack entries for the part size and location
     > description. Not only would this be a simpler operation and avoid the
     > complexities of incomplete composite location descriptions, but it may
     > also have a smaller encoding in practice. However, the desire for
     > compatibility with DWARF Version 5 is likely a stronger consideration.

 2.  `DW_OP_bit_piece`

     `DW_OP_bit_piece` has two operands. The first is an unsigned LEB128 integer
     that represents the part bit size S. The second is an unsigned LEB128
     integer that represents a bit displacement B.

     The action is the same as for `DW_OP_piece`, except that any part created
     has the bit size S, and the location description PL of any created part is
     updated by a bit offset B.

     <i>`DW_OP_bit_piece` is used instead of `DW_OP_piece` when the piece to be
     assembled is not byte-sized or is not at the start of the part location
     description.</i>

 #### A.2.5.5 DWARF Location List Expressions

 > NOTE: This section replaces DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.2.

 <i>To meet the needs of recent computer architectures and optimization
 techniques, debugging information must be able to describe the location of an
 object whose location changes over the object's lifetime, and may reside at
 multiple locations during parts of an object's lifetime. Location list
 expressions are used in place of operation expressions whenever the object whose
 location is being described has these requirements.</i>

 A location list expression consists of a series of location list entries. Each
 location list entry is one of the following kinds:

 1.  <i>Bounded location description</i>

     This kind of location list entry provides an operation expression that
     evaluates to the location description of an object that is valid over a
     lifetime bounded by a starting and ending address. The starting address is
     the lowest address of the address range over which the location is valid.
     The ending address is the address of the first location past the highest
     address of the address range.

     The location list entry matches when the current program location is within
     the given range.

     There are several kinds of bounded location description entries which differ
     in the way that they specify the starting and ending addresses.

 2.  <i>Default location description</i>

     This kind of location list entry provides an operation expression that
     evaluates to the location description of an object that is valid when no
     bounded location description entry applies.

     The location list entry matches when the current program location is not
     within the range of any bounded location description entry.

 3.  <i>Base address</i>

     This kind of location list entry provides an address to be used as the base
     address for beginning and ending address offsets given in certain kinds of
     bounded location description entries. The applicable base address of a
     bounded location description entry is the address specified by the closest
     preceding base address entry in the same location list. If there is no
     preceding base address entry, then the applicable base address defaults to
     the base address of the compilation unit (see DWARF Version 5 section
     3.1.1).

     In the case of a compilation unit where all of the machine code is contained
     in a single contiguous section, no base address entry is needed.

 4.  <i>End-of-list</i>

     This kind of location list entry marks the end of the location list
     expression.

 The address ranges defined by the bounded location description entries of a
 location list expression may overlap. When they do, they describe a situation in
 which an object exists simultaneously in more than one place.

 If all of the address ranges in a given location list expression do not
 collectively cover the entire range over which the object in question is
 defined, and there is no following default location description entry, it is
 assumed that the object is not available for the portion of the range that is
 not covered.

 The result of the evaluation of a DWARF location list expression is:

 - If the current program location is not specified, then it is an evaluation
   error.

   > NOTE: If the location list only has a single default entry, should that be
   > considered a match if there is no program location? If there are non-default
   > entries then it seems it has to be an evaluation error when there is no
   > program location as that indicates the location depends on the program
   > location which is not known.

 - If there are no matching location list entries, then the result is a location
   description that comprises one undefined location description.
 - Otherwise, the operation expression E of each matching location list entry is
   evaluated with the current context, except that the result kind is a location
   description, the object is unspecified, and the initial stack is empty. The
   location list entry result is the location description returned by the
   evaluation of E.

   The result is a location description that is comprised of the union of the
   single location descriptions of the location description result of each
   matching location list entry.

 A location list expression can only be used as the value of a debugger
 information entry attribute that is encoded using class `loclist` or
 `loclistsptr` (see [7.5.5 Classes and Forms](#classes-and-forms)). The value of
 the attribute provides an index into a separate object file section called
 `.debug_loclists` or `.debug_loclists.dwo` (for split DWARF object files) that
 contains the location list entries.

 A `DW_OP_call*` and `DW_OP_implicit_pointer` operation can be used to specify a
 debugger information entry attribute that has a location list expression.
 Several debugger information entry attributes allow DWARF expressions that are
 evaluated with an initial stack that includes a location description that may
 originate from the evaluation of a location list expression.

 <i>This location list representation, the `loclist` and `loclistsptr` class, and
 the related `DW_AT_loclists_base` attribute are new in DWARF Version 5. Together
 they eliminate most, or all of the code object relocations previously needed for
 location list expressions.</i>

 > NOTE: The rest of this section is the same as DWARF Version 5 section 2.6.2.

 ## A.3 Program Scope Entries

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to existing debugger information entry
 > attributes. These would be incorporated into the corresponding DWARF Version 5
 > chapter 3 sections.

 ### A.3.3 Subroutine and Entry Point Entries

 #### A.3.3.5 Low-Level Information

 1.  A `DW_TAG_subprogram`, `DW_TAG_inlined_subroutine`, or `DW_TAG_entry_point`
     debugger information entry may have a `DW_AT_return_addr` attribute, whose
     value is a DWARF expression E.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that
     has a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the
     compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other context
     elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which
     the user is focused, if any. The result of the evaluation is the location
     description L of the place where the return address for the current call
     frame's subprogram or entry point is stored.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if L is not comprised of one memory location
     description for one of the target architecture specific address spaces.

     > NOTE: It is unclear why `DW_TAG_inlined_subroutine` has a
     > `DW_AT_return_addr` attribute but not a `DW_AT_frame_base` or
     > `DW_AT_static_link` attribute. Seems it would either have all of them or
     > none. Since inlined subprograms do not have a call frame it seems they
     > would have none of these attributes.

 2.  A `DW_TAG_subprogram` or `DW_TAG_entry_point` debugger information entry may
     have a `DW_AT_frame_base` attribute, whose value is a DWARF expression E.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that
     has a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the
     compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other context
     elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which
     the user is focused, if any.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if E contains an `DW_OP_fbreg` operation, or the
     resulting location description L is not comprised of one single location
     description SL.

     If SL is a register location description for register R, then L is replaced
     with the result of evaluating a `DW_OP_bregx R, 0` operation. This computes
     the frame base memory location description in the target architecture
     default address space.

     <i>This allows the more compact `DW_OP_reg*` to be used instead of
     `DW_OP_breg* 0`.</i>

     > NOTE: This rule could be removed and require the producer to create the
     > required location description directly using `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa` or
     > `DW_OP_breg*`. This would also then allow a target to implement the call
     > frames within a large register.

     Otherwise, the DWARF is ill-formed if SL is not a memory location
     description in any of the target architecture specific address spaces.

     The resulting L is the <i>frame base</i> for the subprogram or entry point.

     <i>Typically, E will use the `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa` operation or be a stack
     pointer register plus or minus some offset.</i>

 3.  If a `DW_TAG_subprogram` or `DW_TAG_entry_point` debugger information entry
     is lexically nested, it may have a `DW_AT_static_link` attribute, whose
     value is a DWARF expression E.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that
     has a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the
     compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other context
     elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which
     the user is focused, if any. The result of the evaluation is the location
     description L of the <i>canonical frame address</i> (see [6.4 Call Frame
     Information](#call-frame-information)) of the relevant call frame of the
     subprogram instance that immediately lexically encloses the current call
     frame's subprogram or entry point.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if L is is not comprised of one memory location
     description for one of the target architecture specific address spaces.

 ### A.3.4 Call Site Entries and Parameters

 #### A.3.4.2 Call Site Parameters

 1.  A `DW_TAG_call_site_parameter` debugger information entry may have a
     `DW_AT_call_value` attribute, whose value is a DWARF operation expression
     E<sub>1</sub>.

     The result of the `DW_AT_call_value` attribute is obtained by evaluating
     E<sub>1</sub> with a context that has a result kind of a value, an unspecified
     object, the compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other
     context elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon
     which the user is focused, if any. The resulting value V<sub>1</sub> is the
     value of the parameter at the time of the call made by the call site.

     For parameters passed by reference, where the code passes a pointer to a
     location which contains the parameter, or for reference type parameters, the
     `DW_TAG_call_site_parameter` debugger information entry may also have a
     `DW_AT_call_data_location` attribute whose value is a DWARF operation expression
     E<sub>2</sub>, and a `DW_AT_call_data_value` attribute whose value is a DWARF
     operation expression E<sub>3</sub>.

     The value of the `DW_AT_call_data_location` attribute is obtained by evaluating
     E<sub>2</sub> with a context that has a result kind of a location description,
     an unspecified object, the compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial
     stack, and other context elements corresponding to the source language thread of
     execution upon which the user is focused, if any. The resulting location
     description L<sub>2</sub> is the location where the referenced parameter lives
     during the call made by the call site. If E<sub>2</sub> would just be a
     `DW_OP_push_object_address`, then the `DW_AT_call_data_location` attribute may
     be omitted.

     > NOTE: The DWARF Version 5 implies that `DW_OP_push_object_address` may be
     > used but does not state what object must be specified in the context.
     > Either `DW_OP_push_object_address` cannot be used, or the object to be
     > passed in the context must be defined.

     The value of the `DW_AT_call_data_value` attribute is obtained by evaluating
     E<sub>3</sub> with a context that has a result kind of a value, an unspecified
     object, the compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other
     context elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon
     which the user is focused, if any. The resulting value V<sub>3</sub> is the
     value in L<sub>2</sub> at the time of the call made by the call site.

     The result of these attributes is undefined if the current call frame is not for
     the subprogram containing the `DW_TAG_call_site_parameter` debugger information
     entry or the current program location is not for the call site containing the
     `DW_TAG_call_site_parameter` debugger information entry in the current call
     frame.

     <i>The consumer may have to virtually unwind to the call site (see [6.4 Call
     Frame Information](#call-frame-information)) in order to evaluate these
     attributes. This will ensure the source language thread of execution upon which
     the user is focused corresponds to the call site needed to evaluate the
     expression.</i>

     If it is not possible to avoid the expressions of these attributes from
     accessing registers or memory locations that might be clobbered by the
     subprogram being called by the call site, then the associated attribute should
     not be provided.

     <i>The reason for the restriction is that the parameter may need to be accessed
     during the execution of the callee. The consumer may virtually unwind from the
     called subprogram back to the caller and then evaluate the attribute
     expressions. The call frame information (see [6.4 Call Frame
     Information](#call-frame-information)) will not be able to restore registers
     that have been clobbered, and clobbered memory will no longer have the value at
     the time of the call.</i>

 ### A.3.5 Lexical Block Entries

 > NOTE: This section is the same as DWARF Version 5 section 3.5.

 ## A.4 Data Object and Object List Entries

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to existing debugger information entry
 > attributes. These would be incorporated into the corresponding DWARF Version 5
 > chapter 4 sections.

 ### A.4.1 Data Object Entries

 1.  Any debugging information entry describing a data object (which includes
     variables and parameters) or common blocks may have a `DW_AT_location`
     attribute, whose value is a DWARF expression E.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that
     has a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the
     compilation unit that contains E, an empty initial stack, and other context
     elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which
     the user is focused, if any. The result of the evaluation is the location
     description of the base of the data object.

     See [2.5.4.2 Control Flow Operations](#control-flow-operations) for special
     evaluation rules used by the `DW_OP_call*` operations.

     > NOTE: Delete the description of how the `DW_OP_call*` operations evaluate
     > a `DW_AT_location` attribute as that is now described in the operations.

     > NOTE: See the discussion about the `DW_AT_location` attribute in the
     > `DW_OP_call*` operation. Having each attribute only have a single purpose
     > and single execution semantics seems desirable. It makes it easier for the
     > consumer that no longer have to track the context. It makes it easier for
     > the producer as it can rely on a single semantics for each attribute.
     >
     > For that reason, limiting the `DW_AT_location` attribute to only
     > supporting evaluating the location description of an object, and using a
     > different attribute and encoding class for the evaluation of DWARF
     > expression <i>procedures</i> on the same operation expression stack seems
     > desirable.

 2.  `DW_AT_const_value`

     > NOTE: Could deprecate using the `DW_AT_const_value` attribute for
     > `DW_TAG_variable` or `DW_TAG_formal_parameter` debugger information
     > entries that have been optimized to a constant. Instead, `DW_AT_location`
     > could be used with a DWARF expression that produces an implicit location
     > description now that any location description can be used within a DWARF
     > expression. This allows the `DW_OP_call*` operations to be used to push
     > the location description of any variable regardless of how it is
     > optimized.

 ## A.5 Type Entries

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to existing debugger information entry
 > attributes. These would be incorporated into the corresponding DWARF Version 5
 > chapter 5 sections.

 ### A.5.7 Structure, Union, Class and Interface Type Entries

 #### A.5.7.3 Derived or Extended Structures, Classes and Interfaces

 1.  For a `DW_AT_data_member_location` attribute there are two cases:

     1.  If the attribute is an integer constant B, it provides the offset in
         bytes from the beginning of the containing entity.

         The result of the attribute is obtained by updating the bit offset of
         the location description of the beginning of the containing entity by B
         scaled by 8 (the byte size). The result is the location description of
         the base of the member entry.

         <i>If the beginning of the containing entity is not byte aligned, then
         the beginning of the member entry has the same bit displacement within a
         byte.</i>

     2.  Otherwise, the attribute must be a DWARF expression E which is evaluated
         with a context that has a result kind of a location description, an
         unspecified object, the compilation unit that contains E, an initial
         stack comprising the location description of the beginning of the
         containing entity, and other context elements corresponding to the
         source language thread of execution upon which the user is focused, if
         any. The result of the evaluation is the location description of the
         base of the member entry.

     > NOTE: The beginning of the containing entity can now be any location
     > description, including those with more than one single location
     > description, and those with single location descriptions that are of any
     > kind and have any bit offset.

 #### A.5.7.8 Member Function Entries

 1.  An entry for a virtual function also has a `DW_AT_vtable_elem_location`
     attribute whose value is a DWARF expression E.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that
     has a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the
     compilation unit that contains E, an initial stack comprising the location
     description of the object of the enclosing type, and other context elements
     corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which the user
     is focused, if any. The result of the evaluation is the location description
     of the slot for the function within the virtual function table for the
     enclosing class.

 ### A.5.14 Pointer to Member Type Entries

 1.  The `DW_TAG_ptr_to_member_type` debugging information entry has a
     `DW_AT_use_location` attribute whose value is a DWARF expression E. It is used
     to compute the location description of the member of the class to which the
     pointer to member entry points.

     <i>The method used to find the location description of a given member of a
     class, structure, or union is common to any instance of that class, structure,
     or union and to any instance of the pointer to member type. The method is thus
     associated with the pointer to member type, rather than with each object that
     has a pointer to member type.</i>

     The `DW_AT_use_location` DWARF expression is used in conjunction with the
     location description for a particular object of the given pointer to member type
     and for a particular structure or class instance.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that has
     a result kind of a location description, an unspecified object, the compilation
     unit that contains E, an initial stack comprising two entries, and other context
     elements corresponding to the source language thread of execution upon which the
     user is focused, if any. The first stack entry is the value of the pointer to
     member object itself. The second stack entry is the location description of the
     base of the entire class, structure, or union instance containing the member
     whose location is being calculated. The result of the evaluation is the location
     description of the member of the class to which the pointer to member entry
     points.

 ### A.5.16 Dynamic Type Entries

 1.  The `DW_AT_data_location` attribute may be used with any type that provides one
     or more levels of hidden indirection and/or run-time parameters in its
     representation. Its value is a DWARF operation expression E which computes the
     location description of the data for an object. When this attribute is omitted,
     the location description of the data is the same as the location description of
     the object.

     The result of the attribute is obtained by evaluating E with a context that has
     a result kind of a location description, an object that is the location
     description of the data descriptor, the compilation unit that contains E, an
     empty initial stack, and other context elements corresponding to the source
     language thread of execution upon which the user is focused, if any. The result
     of the evaluation is the location description of the base of the member entry.

     <i>E will typically involve an operation expression that begins with a
     `DW_OP_push_object_address` operation which loads the location description
     of the object which can then serve as a descriptor in subsequent
     calculation.</i>

     > NOTE: Since `DW_AT_data_member_location`, `DW_AT_use_location`, and
     > `DW_AT_vtable_elem_location` allow both operation expressions and location
     > list expressions, why does `DW_AT_data_location` not allow both? In all cases
     > they apply to data objects so less likely that optimization would cause
     > different operation expressions for different program location ranges. But if
     > supporting for some then should be for all.
     >
     > It seems odd this attribute is not the same as `DW_AT_data_member_location` in
     > having an initial stack with the location description of the object since the
     > expression has to need it.

 ## A.6 Other Debugging Information

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to existing debugger information entry
 > attributes. These would be incorporated into the corresponding DWARF Version 5
 > chapter 6 sections.

 ### A.6.2 Line Number Information

 > NOTE: This section is the same as DWARF Version 5 section 6.2.

 ### A.6.4 Call Frame Information

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to DWARF Version 5 section 6.4. Register
 > unwind DWARF expressions are generalized to allow any location description,
 > including those with composite and implicit location descriptions.

 #### A.6.4.1 Structure of Call Frame Information

 The register rules are:

 1.  <i>undefined</i>

     A register that has this rule has no recoverable value in the previous
     frame. The previous value of this register is the undefined location
     description (see [2.5.4.4.2 Undefined Location Description
     Operations](#undefined-location-description-operations)).

     <i>By convention, the register is not preserved by a callee.</i>

 2.  <i>same value</i>

     This register has not been modified from the previous caller frame.

     If the current frame is the top frame, then the previous value of this
     register is the location description L that specifies one register location
     description SL. SL specifies the register location storage that corresponds
     to the register with a bit offset of 0 for the current thread.

     If the current frame is not the top frame, then the previous value of this
     register is the location description obtained using the call frame
     information for the callee frame and callee program location invoked by the
     current caller frame for the same register.

     <i>By convention, the register is preserved by the callee, but the callee
     has not modified it.</i>

 3.  <i>offset(N)</i>

     N is a signed byte offset. The previous value of this register is saved at
     the location description L. Where L is the location description of the
     current CFA (see [2.5.4 DWARF Operation
     Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)) updated with the bit offset N
     scaled by 8 (the byte size).

 4.  <i>val_offset(N)</i>

     N is a signed byte offset. The previous value of this register is the memory
     byte address of the location description L. Where L is the location
     description of the current CFA (see [2.5.4 DWARF Operation
     Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)) updated with the bit offset N
     scaled by 8 (the byte size).

     The DWARF is ill-formed if the CFA location description is not a memory byte
     address location description, or if the register size does not match the
     size of an address in the target architecture default address space.

     <i>Since the CFA location description is required to be a memory byte
     address location description, the value of val_offset(N) will also be a
     memory byte address location description since it is offsetting the CFA
     location description by N bytes. Furthermore, the value of val_offset(N)
     will be a memory byte address in the target architecture default address
     space.</i>

     > NOTE: Should DWARF allow the address size to be a different size to the
     > size of the register? Requiring them to be the same bit size avoids any
     > issue of conversion as the bit contents of the register is simply
     > interpreted as a value of the address.
     >
     > GDB has a per register hook that allows a target specific conversion on a
     > register by register basis. It defaults to truncation of bigger registers,
     > and to actually reading bytes from the next register (or reads out of
     > bounds for the last register) for smaller registers. There are no GDB
     > tests that read a register out of bounds (except an illegal hand written
     > assembly test).

 5.  <i>register(R)</i>

     This register has been stored in another register numbered R.

     The previous value of this register is the location description obtained
     using the call frame information for the current frame and current program
     location for register R.

     The DWARF is ill-formed if the size of this register does not match the size
     of register R or if there is a cyclic dependency in the call frame
     information.

     > NOTE: Should this also allow R to be larger than this register? If so is
     > the value stored in the low order bits and it is undefined what is stored
     > in the extra upper bits?

 6.  <i>expression(E)</i>

     The previous value of this register is located at the location description
     produced by evaluating the DWARF operation expression E (see [2.5.4 DWARF
     Operation Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)).

     E is evaluated with the current context, except the result kind is a
     location description, the compilation unit is unspecified, the object is
     unspecified, and an initial stack comprising the location description of the
     current CFA (see [2.5.4 DWARF Operation
     Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)).

 7.  <i>val_expression(E)</i>

     The previous value of this register is the value produced by evaluating the
     DWARF operation expression E (see [2.5.4 DWARF Operation
     Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)).

     E is evaluated with the current context, except the result kind is a value,
     the compilation unit is unspecified, the object is unspecified, and an
     initial stack comprising the location description of the current CFA (see
     [2.5.4 DWARF Operation Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)).

     The DWARF is ill-formed if the resulting value type size does not match the
     register size.

     > NOTE: This has limited usefulness as the DWARF expression E can only
     > produce values up to the size of the generic type. This is due to not
     > allowing any operations that specify a type in a CFI operation expression.
     > This makes it unusable for registers that are larger than the generic
     > type. However, <i>expression(E)</i> can be used to create an implicit
     > location description of any size.

 8.  <i>architectural</i>

     The rule is defined externally to this specification by the augmenter.

 A Common Information Entry (CIE) holds information that is shared among many
 Frame Description Entries (FDE). There is at least one CIE in every non-empty
 `.debug_frame` section. A CIE contains the following fields, in order:

 1.  `length` (initial length)

     A constant that gives the number of bytes of the CIE structure, not
     including the length field itself. The size of the length field plus the
     value of length must be an integral multiple of the address size specified
     in the `address_size` field.

 2.  `CIE_id` (4 or 8 bytes, see [7.4 32-Bit and 64-Bit DWARF
     Formats](#32-bit-and-64-bit-dwarf-formats))

     A constant that is used to distinguish CIEs from FDEs.

     In the 32-bit DWARF format, the value of the CIE id in the CIE header is
     0xffffffff; in the 64-bit DWARF format, the value is 0xffffffffffffffff.

 3.  `version` (ubyte)

     A version number. This number is specific to the call frame information and
     is independent of the DWARF version number.

     The value of the CIE version number is 4.

     > NOTE: Would this be increased to 5 to reflect the changes in these
     > extensions?

 4.  `augmentation` (sequence of UTF-8 characters)

     A null-terminated UTF-8 string that identifies the augmentation to this CIE
     or to the FDEs that use it. If a reader encounters an augmentation string
     that is unexpected, then only the following fields can be read:

     - CIE: length, CIE_id, version, augmentation
     - FDE: length, CIE_pointer, initial_location, address_range

     If there is no augmentation, this value is a zero byte.

     <i>The augmentation string allows users to indicate that there is additional
     vendor and target architecture specific information in the CIE or FDE which
     is needed to virtually unwind a stack frame. For example, this might be
     information about dynamically allocated data which needs to be freed on exit
     from the routine.</i>

     <i>Because the `.debug_frame` section is useful independently of any
     `.debug_info` section, the augmentation string always uses UTF-8
     encoding.</i>

 5.  `address_size` (ubyte)

     The size of a target address in this CIE and any FDEs that use it, in bytes.
     If a compilation unit exists for this frame, its address size must match the
     address size here.

 6.  `segment_selector_size` (ubyte)

     The size of a segment selector in this CIE and any FDEs that use it, in
     bytes.

 7.  `code_alignment_factor` (unsigned LEB128)

     A constant that is factored out of all advance location instructions (see
     [6.4.2.1 Row Creation Instructions](#row-creation-instructions)). The
     resulting value is `(operand * code_alignment_factor)`.

 8.  `data_alignment_factor` (signed LEB128)

     A constant that is factored out of certain offset instructions (see [6.4.2.2
     CFA Definition Instructions](#cfa-definition-instructions) and [6.4.2.3
     Register Rule Instructions](#register-rule-instructions)). The
     resulting value is `(operand * data_alignment_factor)`.

 9.  `return_address_register` (unsigned LEB128)

     An unsigned LEB128 constant that indicates which column in the rule table
     represents the return address of the subprogram. Note that this column might
     not correspond to an actual machine register.

     The value of the return address register is used to determine the program
     location of the caller frame. The program location of the top frame is the
     target architecture program counter value of the current thread.

 10. `initial_instructions` (array of ubyte)

     A sequence of rules that are interpreted to create the initial setting of
     each column in the table.

     The default rule for all columns before interpretation of the initial
     instructions is the undefined rule. However, an ABI authoring body or a
     compilation system authoring body may specify an alternate default value for
     any or all columns.

 11. `padding` (array of ubyte)

     Enough `DW_CFA_nop` instructions to make the size of this entry match the
     length value above.

 An FDE contains the following fields, in order:

 1.  `length` (initial length)

     A constant that gives the number of bytes of the header and instruction
     stream for this subprogram, not including the length field itself. The size
     of the length field plus the value of length must be an integral multiple of
     the address size.

 2.  `CIE_pointer` (4 or 8 bytes, see [7.4 32-Bit and 64-Bit DWARF
     Formats](#32-bit-and-64-bit-dwarf-formats))

     A constant offset into the `.debug_frame` section that denotes the CIE that
     is associated with this FDE.

 3.  `initial_location` (segment selector and target address)

     The address of the first location associated with this table entry. If the
     segment_selector_size field of this FDE's CIE is non-zero, the initial
     location is preceded by a segment selector of the given length.

 4.  `address_range` (target address)

     The number of bytes of program instructions described by this entry.

 5.  `instructions` (array of ubyte)

     A sequence of table defining instructions that are described in [6.4.2 Call
     Frame Instructions](#call-frame-instructions).

 6.  `padding` (array of ubyte)

     Enough `DW_CFA_nop` instructions to make the size of this entry match the
     length value above.

 #### A.6.4.2 Call Frame Instructions

 Some call frame instructions have operands that are encoded as DWARF operation
 expressions E (see [2.5.4 DWARF Operation
 Expressions](#dwarf-operation-expressions)). The DWARF operations that can be
 used in E have the following restrictions:

 - `DW_OP_addrx`, `DW_OP_call2`, `DW_OP_call4`, `DW_OP_call_ref`,
   `DW_OP_const_type`, `DW_OP_constx`, `DW_OP_convert`, `DW_OP_deref_type`,
   `DW_OP_fbreg`, `DW_OP_implicit_pointer`, `DW_OP_regval_type`,
   `DW_OP_reinterpret`, and `DW_OP_xderef_type` operations are not allowed
   because the call frame information must not depend on other debug sections.
 - `DW_OP_push_object_address` is not allowed because there is no object context
   to provide a value to push.
 - `DW_OP_call_frame_cfa` and `DW_OP_entry_value` are not allowed because their
   use would be circular.

 <i>Call frame instructions to which these restrictions apply include
 `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression`, `DW_CFA_expression`, and
 `DW_CFA_val_expression`.</i>

 ##### A.6.4.2.1 Row Creation Instructions

 > NOTE: These instructions are the same as in DWARF Version 5 section 6.4.2.1.

 ##### A.6.4.2.2 CFA Definition Instructions

 1.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa` instruction takes two unsigned LEB128 operands
     representing a register number R and a (non-factored) byte displacement B.
     The required action is to define the current CFA rule to be the result of
     evaluating the DWARF operation expression `DW_OP_bregx R, B` as a location
     description.

 2.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa_sf`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa_sf` instruction takes two operands: an unsigned LEB128
     value representing a register number R and a signed LEB128 factored byte
     displacement B. The required action is to define the current CFA rule to be
     the result of evaluating the DWARF operation expression `DW_OP_bregx R, B *
     data_alignment_factor` as a location description.

     <i>The action is the same as `DW_CFA_def_cfa`, except that the second
     operand is signed and factored.</i>

 3.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa_register`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa_register` instruction takes a single unsigned LEB128
     operand representing a register number R. The required action is to define
     the current CFA rule to be the result of evaluating the DWARF operation
     expression `DW_OP_bregx R, B` as a location description. B is the old CFA
     byte displacement.

     If the subprogram has no current CFA rule, or the rule was defined by a
     `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression` instruction, then the DWARF is ill-formed.

 4.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset` instruction takes a single unsigned LEB128
     operand representing a (non-factored) byte displacement B. The required
     action is to define the current CFA rule to be the result of evaluating the
     DWARF operation expression `DW_OP_bregx R, B` as a location description. R
     is the old CFA register number.

     If the subprogram has no current CFA rule, or the rule was defined by a
     `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression` instruction, then the DWARF is ill-formed.

 5.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset_sf`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset_sf` instruction takes a signed LEB128 operand
     representing a factored byte displacement B. The required action is to
     define the current CFA rule to be the result of evaluating the DWARF
     operation expression `DW_OP_bregx R, B * data_alignment_factor` as a
     location description. R is the old CFA register number.

     If the subprogram has no current CFA rule, or the rule was defined by a
     `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression` instruction, then the DWARF is ill-formed.

     <i>The action is the same as `DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset`, except that the
     operand is signed and factored.</i>

 6.  `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression`

     The `DW_CFA_def_cfa_expression` instruction takes a single operand encoded
     as a `DW_FORM_exprloc` value representing a DWARF operation expression E.
     The required action is to define the current CFA rule to be the result of
     evaluating E with the current context, except the result kind is a location
     description, the compilation unit is unspecified, the object is unspecified,
     and an empty initial stack.

     <i>See [6.4.2 Call Frame Instructions](#call-frame-instructions) regarding
     restrictions on the DWARF expression operations that can be used in E.</i>

     The DWARF is ill-formed if the result of evaluating E is not a memory byte
     address location description.

 ##### A.6.4.2.3 Register Rule Instructions

 1.  `DW_CFA_undefined`

     The `DW_CFA_undefined` instruction takes a single unsigned LEB128 operand
     that represents a register number R. The required action is to set the rule
     for the register specified by R to `undefined`.

 2.  `DW_CFA_same_value`

     The `DW_CFA_same_value` instruction takes a single unsigned LEB128 operand
     that represents a register number R. The required action is to set the rule
     for the register specified by R to `same value`.

 3.  `DW_CFA_offset`

     The `DW_CFA_offset` instruction takes two operands: a register number R
     (encoded with the opcode) and an unsigned LEB128 constant representing a
     factored displacement B. The required action is to change the rule for the
     register specified by R to be an <i>offset(B * data_alignment_factor)</i>
     rule.

     > NOTE: Seems this should be named `DW_CFA_offset_uf` since the offset is
     > unsigned factored.

 4.  `DW_CFA_offset_extended`

     The `DW_CFA_offset_extended` instruction takes two unsigned LEB128 operands
     representing a register number R and a factored displacement B. This
     instruction is identical to `DW_CFA_offset`, except for the encoding and
     size of the register operand.

     > NOTE: Seems this should be named `DW_CFA_offset_extended_uf` since the
     > displacement is unsigned factored.

 5.  `DW_CFA_offset_extended_sf`

     The `DW_CFA_offset_extended_sf` instruction takes two operands: an unsigned
     LEB128 value representing a register number R and a signed LEB128 factored
     displacement B. This instruction is identical to `DW_CFA_offset_extended`,
     except that B is signed.

 6.  `DW_CFA_val_offset`

     The `DW_CFA_val_offset` instruction takes two unsigned LEB128 operands
     representing a register number R and a factored displacement B. The required
     action is to change the rule for the register indicated by R to be a
     <i>val_offset(B * data_alignment_factor)</i> rule.

     > NOTE: Seems this should be named `DW_CFA_val_offset_uf` since the
     displacement is unsigned factored.

 7.  `DW_CFA_val_offset_sf`

     The `DW_CFA_val_offset_sf` instruction takes two operands: an unsigned
     LEB128 value representing a register number R and a signed LEB128 factored
     displacement B. This instruction is identical to `DW_CFA_val_offset`, except
     that B is signed.

 8.  `DW_CFA_register`

     The `DW_CFA_register` instruction takes two unsigned LEB128 operands
     representing register numbers R1 and R2 respectively. The required action is
     to set the rule for the register specified by R1 to be a <i>register(R2)</i>
     rule.

 9.  `DW_CFA_expression`

     The `DW_CFA_expression` instruction takes two operands: an unsigned LEB128
     value representing a register number R, and a `DW_FORM_block` value
     representing a DWARF operation expression E. The required action is to
     change the rule for the register specified by R to be an
     <i>expression(E)</i> rule.

     <i>That is, E computes the location description where the register value can
     be retrieved.</i>

     <i>See [6.4.2 Call Frame Instructions](#call-frame-instructions) regarding
     restrictions on the DWARF expression operations that can be used in E.</i>

 10. `DW_CFA_val_expression`

     The `DW_CFA_val_expression` instruction takes two operands: an unsigned
     LEB128 value representing a register number R, and a `DW_FORM_block` value
     representing a DWARF operation expression E. The required action is to
     change the rule for the register specified by R to be a
     <i>val_expression(E)</i> rule.

     <i>That is, E computes the value of register R.</i>

     <i>See [6.4.2 Call Frame Instructions](#call-frame-instructions) regarding
     restrictions on the DWARF expression operations that can be used in E.</i>

     If the result of evaluating E is not a value with a base type size that
     matches the register size, then the DWARF is ill-formed.

 11. `DW_CFA_restore`

     The `DW_CFA_restore` instruction takes a single operand (encoded with the
     opcode) that represents a register number R. The required action is to
     change the rule for the register specified by R to the rule assigned it by
     the `initial_instructions` in the CIE.

 12. `DW_CFA_restore_extended`

     The `DW_CFA_restore_extended` instruction takes a single unsigned LEB128
     operand that represents a register number R. This instruction is identical
     to `DW_CFA_restore`, except for the encoding and size of the register
     operand.

 ##### A.6.4.2.4 Row State Instructions

 > NOTE: These instructions are the same as in DWARF Version 5 section 6.4.2.4.

 ##### A.6.4.2.5 Padding Instruction

 > NOTE: These instructions are the same as in DWARF Version 5 section 6.4.2.5.

 #### A.6.4.3 Call Frame Instruction Usage

 > NOTE: The same as in DWARF Version 5 section 6.4.3.

 #### A.6.4.4 Call Frame Calling Address

 > NOTE: The same as in DWARF Version 5 section 6.4.4.

 ## A.7 Data Representation

 > NOTE: This section provides changes to existing debugger information entry
 > attributes. These would be incorporated into the corresponding DWARF Version 5
 > chapter 7 sections.

 ### A.7.4 32-Bit and 64-Bit DWARF Formats

 > NOTE: This augments DWARF Version 5 section 7.4 list item 3's table.

     Form                     Role
     ------------------------ --------------------------------------
     DW_OP_implicit_pointer   offset in `.debug_info`

 ### A.7.5 Format of Debugging Information

 #### A.7.5.5 Classes and Forms

 > NOTE: The same as in DWARF Version 5 section 7.5.5.

 ### A.7.7 DWARF Expressions

 > NOTE: Rename DWARF Version 5 section 7.7 to reflect the unification of
 > location descriptions into DWARF expressions.

 #### A.7.7.1 Operation Expressions

 > NOTE: Rename DWARF Version 5 section 7.7.1 and delete section 7.7.2 to reflect
 > the unification of location descriptions into DWARF expressions.

 #### A.7.7.3 Location List Expressions

 > NOTE: Rename DWARF Version 5 section 7.7.3 to reflect that location lists are
 > a kind of DWARF expression.

 # B. Further Information

 The following references provide additional information on the extension.

 A reference to the DWARF standard is provided.

 A formatted version of this extension is available on the LLVM site. It includes
 many figures that help illustrate the textual description, especially of the
 example DWARF expression evaluations.

 Slides and a video of a presentation at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2021
 related to this extension are available.

 The LLVM compiler extension includes the operations mentioned in the motivating
 examples. It also covers other extensions needed for heterogeneous devices.

 - [DWARF Debugging Information Format](https://dwarfstd.org/)
   - [DWARF Debugging Information Format Version 5](https://dwarfstd.org/Dwarf5Std.php)
 - [Allow Location Descriptions on the DWARF Expression Stack](https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUDwarfExtensionAllowLocationDescriptionOnTheDwarfExpressionStack/AMDGPUDwarfExtensionAllowLocationDescriptionOnTheDwarfExpressionStack.html)
 - DWARF extensions for optimized SIMT/SIMD (GPU) debugging - Linux Plumbers Conference 2021
   - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiR0ra0ymEY&t=10015s)
   - [Slides](https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/1012/attachments/798/1505/DWARF_Extensions_for_Optimized_SIMT-SIMD_GPU_Debugging-LPC2021.pdf)
 - [DWARF Extensions For Heterogeneous Debugging](https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUDwarfExtensionsForHeterogeneousDebugging.html)