Handle variable-sized fields in the interior of structure type
In Ada, variable-sized field can be located at any position of
a structure. Consider for instance the following declarations:
Dyn_Size : Integer := 1;
type Table is array (Positive range <>) of Integer;
type Inner is record
T1 : Table (1 .. Dyn_Size) := (others => 1);
T2 : Table (1 .. Dyn_Size) := (others => 2);
end record;
type Inner_Array is array (1 .. 2) of Inner;
type Outer is
record
I0 : Integer := 0;
A1 : Inner_Array;
Marker : Integer := 16#
01020304#;
end record;
Rt : Outer;
What this does is declare a variable "Rt" of type Outer, which
contains 3 fields where the second (A1) is of type Inner_Array.
type Inner_Array is an array with 2 elements of type Inner.
Because type Inner contains two arrays whose upper bound depend
on a variable, the size of the array, and therefore the size of
type Inner is dynamic, thus making field A1 a dynamically-size
field.
When trying to print the value of Rt, we hit the following limitation:
(gdb) print rt
Attempt to resolve a variably-sized type which appears in the interior of
a structure type
The limitation was somewhat making sense in C, but needs to be lifted
for Ada. This patch mostly lifts that limitation. As a result of this
patch, the type length computation had to be reworked a little bit.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gdbtypes.c (resolve_dynamic_struct): Do not generate an error
if detecting a variable-sized field that is not the last field.
Fix struct type length computation.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/vla-datatypes.c (vla_factory): Add new variable
inner_vla_struct_object_size.
* gdb.base/vla-datatypes.exp: Adjust last test, and mark it
as xfail.