dblaikie added a comment.

In D94063#2485271 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D94063#2485271>, @labath wrote:

> In D94063#2483546 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D94063#2483546>, @dblaikie wrote:
>
>> If it's better to write it using C++ source and custom clang flags I can do 
>> that instead (it'll be an -mllvm flag - looks like there's one other test 
>> that does that: `lldb/test/API/lang/objc/forward-decl/TestForwardDecl.py:    
>>         dict(CFLAGS_EXTRAS="-dwarf-version=5 -mllvm -accel-tables=Dwarf"))`) 
>> - means the test will be a bit more convoluted to tickle the subprogram 
>> ranges, but not much - just takes two functions+function-sections.
>
> I certainly wouldn't want to drop the existing test.

Ah, what's the tradeoff between the different test types here?

> However, it could be useful to have c++ test too. This one could feature a 
> more complicated executable, and be more open-ended/exploratory and test 
> end-to-end functionality (including compiler integration), instead of a 
> targeted "did we parse DW_AT_ranges correctly" regression test. Then this 
> test could go into the `API` test category, as we have the ability to run 
> those kinds of tests against different compilers.

Does this include support for custom compiler flags (it'd currently take a 
non-official/internal-only llvm flag to create the DW_AT_ranges on a subprogram 
that I have in mind, for instance)?

> However, all of that is strictly optional.

I'll consider it for a separate commit.


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