I think it does not make sense for a line-0 record to have is_stmt set. I made a point of turning it off for implicit line-0 records generated by DwarfDebug, and in real code I don't think we would ever see it. However, adding an assertion to this effect broke 40 LLVM tests. In most cases, the problem is merely that the test-input IR does not specify everything that normal IR input has. In particular, at some point DISubprogram started making a distinction between Line and scopeLine, i.e. line of declaration versus where-the-code-starts. If the scopeLine argument is missing from textual IR, it defaults to zero, and that gets propagated to the entry point of the subprogram, which is a stopping point and therefore has is_stmt=1. Defaulting scopeLine to Line fixed 33 of the tests, and eyeballing the other 7 suggests that most of them don't set Line either. This is (IMO) a matter of flawed tests and it should be no sweat to fix. There is one test related to prologue-end that seems to be testing that it's okay for prologue-end to be line 0, and I ran out of time to investigate any further.