This is a prototype implementation of the feature for defining array types and subtypes with fixed lower bounds for index ranges as proposed as part of the "Inox" language design effort. This feature is currently supported under control of the -gnatX (language extensions) switch, and allows unconstrained array types as well as unconstrained subtypes to be declared with indexes that use the special syntax "expression .. <>", to indicate that the lower bound of the array type or subtype is fixed at a value given by an expression. In contexts such as actual parameters, object declarations, return statements, and type conversions, if the context is such an unconstrained array subtype with a fixed lower bound, bounds sliding is performed. Also, in certain contexts, such as index constraints, consistency of the range imposed by the constraint with the fixed lower bound of the array type being constrained is enforced. Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, committed on trunk gcc/ada/ * checks.adb (Discrete_Range_Cond): For an index subtype that has a fixed lower bound, require that the range's lower bound match that of the subtype. (Selected_Range_Checks): Warn about the case where a static lower bound does not equal an index subtype's fixed lower bound. * einfo.ads (Is_Fixed_Lower_Bound_Array_Subtype, Is_Fixed_Lower_Bound_Index_Subtype): Document new entity flag. * exp_ch4.adb (Expand_N_Type_Conversion): If the operand is of an unconstrained array subtype with fixed lower bound, then Expand_Sliding_Conversion is applied to the operand. * exp_ch6.adb (Expand_Simple_Function_Return): If the result subtype is an unconstrained array subtype with fixed lower bound, then Expand_Sliding_Conversion is applied to the return object. * exp_util.ads (Expand_Sliding_Conversion): New procedure for applying a sliding subtype conversion to an array object of a fixed-lower-bound subtype when needed. * exp_util.adb: Add with_clause for Freeze. (Expand_Sliding_Conversion): New procedure for applying a sliding subtype conversion to an array object of a fixed-lower-bound subtype when needed. It traverses the indexes of the unconstrained array type/subtype to create a target constrained subtype and rewrites the array object to be a conversion to that subtype, when there's at least one index whose lower bound does not statically match the fixed-lower bound of the target subtype. * gen_il-fields.ads (type Opt_Field_Enum): Add literals Is_Fixed_Lower_Bound_Array_Subtype and Is_Fixed_Lower_Bound_Index_Subtype for new flags on type entities. * gen_il-gen-gen_entities.adb: Add calls to Create_Semantic_Field for the new fixed-lower-bound flags on type entities. * par-ch3.adb (P_Array_Type_Definition): Add handling for parsing of fixed-lower-bound index ranges in unconstrained array types. Report an error if such an index is encountered and GNAT language extensions are not enabled. (P_Index_Subtype_Def_With_Fixed_Lower_Bound): Support procedure for parsing unconstrained index ranges. (P_Index_Or_Discriminant_Constraint): Add handling for parsing of index constraints that specify ranges with fixed lower bounds. Report an error if such an index is encountered and GNAT language extensions are not enabled. * sem_ch3.adb (Analyze_Object_Declaration): If the object's nominal subtype is an array subtype with fixed lower bound, then Expand_Sliding_Conversion is applied to the object. (Array_Type_Declaration): Mark the array type and the subtypes of any indexes that specify a fixed lower bound as being fixed-lower-bound subtypes, and set the High_bound of the range of such an index to the upper bound of the named subtype. (Constrain_Array): For an array subtype with one or more index ranges specifying a fixed lower bound, set Is_Constrained to False and set the array subtype's Is_Fixed_Lower_Bound_Array_Subtype flag to True. (Constrain_Index): Mark the subtypes of an index that specifies a fixed lower bound as being a fixed-lower-bound index subtype, and set the High_bound of the range of such an index to the upper bound of the base type of the array type's corresponding index. * sem_res.adb (Resolve_Actuals): If a formal is of an unconstrained array subtype with fixed lower bound, then Expand_Sliding_Conversion is applied to the actual. * sem_util.adb (Build_Actual_Subtype): If the actual subtype corresponds to an unconstrained array subtype having any indexes with fixed lower bounds, then set the lower bounds of any such indexes of the actual subtype to the appropriate fixed lower bound of the formal subtype (rather than taking it from the formal itself). * sprint.adb (Sprint_Node_Actual, case N_Range): If a range's Etype has a fixed lower bound, then print "<>" rather than the High_Bound of the range.