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diff --git a/gdb/ax-gdb.c b/gdb/ax-gdb.c
index 87aa210787..332840456f 100644
--- a/gdb/ax-gdb.c
+++ b/gdb/ax-gdb.c
@@ -2419,6 +2419,56 @@ ternop_cond_operation::do_generate_ax (struct expression *exp,
value->kind = value2.kind;
}
+/* Generate code for GDB's magical `repeat' operator.
+ LVALUE @ INT creates an array INT elements long, and whose elements
+ have the same type as LVALUE, located in memory so that LVALUE is
+ its first element. For example, argv[0]@argc gives you the array
+ of command-line arguments.
+
+ Unfortunately, because we have to know the types before we actually
+ have a value for the expression, we can't implement this perfectly
+ without changing the type system, having values that occupy two
+ stack slots, doing weird things with sizeof, etc. So we require
+ the right operand to be a constant expression. */
+void
+repeat_operation::do_generate_ax (struct expression *exp,
+ struct agent_expr *ax,
+ struct axs_value *value,
+ struct type *cast_type)
+{
+ struct axs_value value1;
+
+ /* We don't want to turn this into an rvalue, so no conversions
+ here. */
+ std::get<0> (m_storage)->generate_ax (exp, ax, &value1);
+ if (value1.kind != axs_lvalue_memory)
+ error (_("Left operand of `@' must be an object in memory."));
+
+ /* Evaluate the length; it had better be a constant. */
+ if (!std::get<1> (m_storage)->constant_p ())
+ error (_("Right operand of `@' must be a "
+ "constant, in agent expressions."));
+
+ struct value *v
+ = std::get<1> (m_storage)->evaluate (nullptr, exp,
+ EVAL_AVOID_SIDE_EFFECTS);
+ if (value_type (v)->code () != TYPE_CODE_INT)
+ error (_("Right operand of `@' must be an integer."));
+ int length = value_as_long (v);
+ if (length <= 0)
+ error (_("Right operand of `@' must be positive."));
+
+ /* The top of the stack is already the address of the object, so
+ all we need to do is frob the type of the lvalue. */
+ /* FIXME-type-allocation: need a way to free this type when we are
+ done with it. */
+ struct type *array
+ = lookup_array_range_type (value1.type, 0, length - 1);
+
+ value->kind = axs_lvalue_memory;
+ value->type = array;
+}
+
}
/* This handles the middle-to-right-side of code generation for binary