gdb/fortran: Support negative array stride in one limited case
This commit adds support for negative Fortran array strides in one limited case, that is the case of a single element array with a negative array stride. The changes in this commit will be required in order for more general negative array stride support to work correctly, however, right now other problems in GDB prevent negative array strides from working in the general case. The reason negative array strides don't currently work in the general case is that when dealing with such arrays, the base address for the objects data is actually the highest addressed element, subsequent elements are then accessed with a negative offset from that address, and GDB is not currently happy with this configuration. The changes here can be summarised as, stop treating signed values as unsigned, specifically, the array stride, and offsets calculated using the array stride. This issue was identified on the mailing list by Sergio: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2020-01/msg00360.html The test for this issue is a new one written by me as the copyright status of the original test is currently unknown. gdb/ChangeLog: * gdbtypes.c (create_array_type_with_stride): Handle negative array strides. * valarith.c (value_subscripted_rvalue): Likewise. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.fortran/derived-type-striding.exp: Add a new test. * gdb.fortran/derived-type-striding.f90: Add pointer variable for new test.
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