always read synthetic pointers as signed integers

I see the error message "access outside bounds of object referenced
via synthetic pointer" in the two fails below of mips gdb testing

print d[-2]^M
access outside bounds of object referenced via synthetic pointer^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.dwarf2/implptrconst.exp: print d[-2]
(gdb) print/d p[-1]^M
access outside bounds of object referenced via synthetic pointer^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.dwarf2/implptrpiece.exp: print/d p[-1]

in the first test, 'd[-2]' is processed by GDB as '* (&d[-2])'.  'd'
is a synthetic pointer, so its value is zero, the address of 'd[-2]'
is -2.  In dwarf2loc.c:indirect_pieced_value,

  /* This is an offset requested by GDB, such as value subscripts.
     However, due to how synthetic pointers are implemented, this is
     always presented to us as a pointer type.  This means we have to
     sign-extend it manually as appropriate.  */
  byte_offset = value_as_address (value);
  if (TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (value)) < sizeof (LONGEST))
    byte_offset = gdb_sign_extend (byte_offset,
				   8 * TYPE_LENGTH (value_type (value)));
  byte_offset += piece->v.ptr.offset;

We know that the value is really an offset instead of address, so the
fix is to extract the value as an (signed) offset.

gdb:

2015-01-08  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
	    Yao Qi  <yao@codesourcery.com>

	* dwarf2loc.c (indirect_pieced_value): Don't call
	gdb_sign_extend.  Call extract_signed_integer instead.
	* utils.c (gdb_sign_extend): Remove.
	* utils.h (gdb_sign_extend): Remove declaration.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
index 084db87..72b1e2a 100644
--- a/gdb/utils.c
+++ b/gdb/utils.c
@@ -3021,23 +3021,6 @@ align_down (ULONGEST v, int n)
   return (v & -n);
 }
 
-/* See utils.h.  */
-
-LONGEST
-gdb_sign_extend (LONGEST value, int bit)
-{
-  gdb_assert (bit >= 1 && bit <= 8 * sizeof (LONGEST));
-
-  if (((value >> (bit - 1)) & 1) != 0)
-    {
-      LONGEST signbit = ((LONGEST) 1) << (bit - 1);
-
-      value = (value ^ signbit) - signbit;
-    }
-
-  return value;
-}
-
 /* Allocation function for the libiberty hash table which uses an
    obstack.  The obstack is passed as DATA.  */