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bf483ddb - [DWARF] Emit a worst-case prologue_end flag for pathological inputs (#107849)

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[DWARF] Emit a worst-case prologue_end flag for pathological inputs (#107849) prologue_end usually indicates where the end of the function-initialization lies, and is where debuggers usually choose to put the initial breakpoint for a function. Our current algorithm piggy-backs it on the first available source-location: which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the start of the function. To avoid this in heavily-optimised code that lacks many useful source locations, pick a worst-case "if all else fails" prologue_end location, of the first instruction that appears to do meaningful computation. It'll be given the function-scope line number, which should run-on from the start of the function anyway. This means if your code is completely inverted by the optimiser, you can at least put a breakpoint at the _start_ like you expect, even if it's difficult to then step through. This patch also attempts to preserve some good behaviour we have without optimisations -- at O0, if the prologue immediately falls into a loop body without any computation happening, then prologue_end lands at the start of that loop. This is desirable; but does mean we need to do more work to detect and support those situations.
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