Document resolve_dynamic_type oddity
Today I re-learned that resolve_dynamic_type can return a type for
which is_dynamic_type returns true. This can happen for an array
whose elements have dynamic type -- the array is reported as dynamic,
but resolving the elements would be incorrect, because each element
might have a different type after resolution.
You can see the special case in resolve_dynamic_array_or_string:
if (ary_dim != NULL && ary_dim->code () == TYPE_CODE_ARRAY)
...
else
...
I looked into having the TYPE_CODE_ARRAY case in
is_dynamic_type_internal follow this same logic, but that breaks down
on the gdb.fortran/dynamic-ptype-whatis.exp test case. In particular
this code in fortran_undetermined::evaluate:
value *callee = std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (nullptr, exp, noside);
if (noside == EVAL_AVOID_SIDE_EFFECTS
&& is_dynamic_type (value_type (callee)))
callee = std::get<0> (m_storage)->evaluate (nullptr, exp, EVAL_NORMAL);
... relies on is_dynamic_type returning true for such an array.
I wasn't really sure of the best way to fix this, so in the meantime I
wrote this patch, which documents the oddity so that I might have a
chance of remembering this in the future.