http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-07/msg00709.html

Hi,

for Fortran it fixes displaying normal strings also in frames/backtraces:

(gdb) frame
->

The patch is simple and I do not see why it should not be this way.

For C/C++ TYPE_CODE_STRING is not used.  I am not aware of Pascal but that
language is currently not really much supported in GDB anyway.

This was a part of my archer/jankratochvil/vla branch but it is not a part of
the Intel VLA patchset as it in fact is completely unrelated to "VLA".

No regressions on {x86_64,x86_64-m32,i686}-fedora22pre-linux-gnu.

Thanks,
Jan

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.exp
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# 
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  
+
+standard_testfile .f90
+if { [prepare_for_testing ${testfile}.exp ${testfile} ${srcfile} {debug f90}] } {
+    return -1
+}
+
+if ![runto MAIN__] then {
+    perror "couldn't run to breakpoint MAIN__"
+    continue
+}
+
+gdb_breakpoint [gdb_get_line_number "s = s"]
+gdb_continue_to_breakpoint "s = s"
+
+gdb_test "ptype s" {type = character\*3}
+gdb_test "p s" " = 'foo'"
+
+# Fix rejected upstream:
+# https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-07/msg00768.html
+setup_kfail "rejected" *-*-* 
+gdb_test "frame" { \(s='foo', .*}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.f90 b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.f90
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.fortran/fortran-frame-string.f90
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+! Copyright 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+!
+! This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+! it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+! the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+! (at your option) any later version.
+!
+! This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+! but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+! MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+! GNU General Public License for more details.
+!
+! You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+! along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+! Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+!
+! Ihis file is the Fortran source file for dynamic.exp.
+! Original file written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>.
+! Modified for the GDB testcase by Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>.
+
+  subroutine f(s)
+  character*3 s
+  s = s
+  end
+
+  program main
+  call f ('foo')
+  end