3 files changed, 50 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
index 513742f34..cbcb0a503 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/Core/Stride.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ namespace Eigen {
   *
   * The outer stride is the pointer increment between two consecutive rows of a row-major matrix or
   * between two consecutive columns of a column-major matrix.
-  *
+  * 
   * These two values can be passed either at compile-time as template parameters, or at runtime as
   * arguments to the constructor.
   *
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ namespace Eigen {
   * \include Map_general_stride.cpp
   * Output: \verbinclude Map_general_stride.out
   *
+  * Both strides can be negative, however, a negative stride of -1 cannot be specified at compiletime
+  * because of the ambiguity with Dynamic which is defined to -1 (historically, negative strides were
+  * not allowed).
+  * 
   * \sa class InnerStride, class OuterStride, \ref TopicStorageOrders
   */
 template<int _OuterStrideAtCompileTime, int _InnerStrideAtCompileTime>
@@ -55,6 +59,8 @@ class Stride
     Stride()
       : m_outer(OuterStrideAtCompileTime), m_inner(InnerStrideAtCompileTime)
     {
+      // FIXME: for Eigen 4 we should use DynamicIndex instead of Dynamic.
+      // FIXME: for Eigen 4 we should also unify this API with fix<>
       eigen_assert(InnerStrideAtCompileTime != Dynamic && OuterStrideAtCompileTime != Dynamic);
     }
 
@@ -63,7 +69,6 @@ class Stride
     Stride(Index outerStride, Index innerStride)
       : m_outer(outerStride), m_inner(innerStride)
     {
-      eigen_assert(innerStride>=0 && outerStride>=0);
     }
 
     /** Copy constructor */
diff --git a/test/mapstride.cpp b/test/mapstride.cpp
index 09196600b..fde73f2ec 100644
--- a/test/mapstride.cpp
+++ b/test/mapstride.cpp
@@ -162,6 +162,32 @@ template<int Alignment,typename MatrixType> void map_class_matrix(const MatrixTy
     VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map,s1*m);
   }
 
+  // test negative strides
+  {
+    Matrix<Scalar,Dynamic,1>::Map(a_array1, arraysize+1).setRandom();
+    Index outerstride = m.innerSize()+4;
+    Scalar* array = array1;
+
+    {
+      Map<MatrixType, Alignment, OuterStride<> > map1(array, rows, cols, OuterStride<>( outerstride));
+      Map<MatrixType, Unaligned, OuterStride<> > map2(array+(m.outerSize()-1)*outerstride, rows, cols, OuterStride<>(-outerstride));
+      if(MatrixType::IsRowMajor)  VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1.colwise().reverse(), map2);
+      else                        VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1.rowwise().reverse(), map2);
+    }
+
+    {
+      Map<MatrixType, Alignment, OuterStride<> > map1(array, rows, cols, OuterStride<>( outerstride));
+      Map<MatrixType, Unaligned, Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic> > map2(array+(m.outerSize()-1)*outerstride+m.innerSize()-1, rows, cols, Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic>(-outerstride,-1));
+      VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1.reverse(), map2);
+    }
+
+    {
+      Map<MatrixType, Alignment, OuterStride<> > map1(array, rows, cols, OuterStride<>( outerstride));
+      Map<MatrixType, Unaligned, Stride<Dynamic,-1> > map2(array+(m.outerSize()-1)*outerstride+m.innerSize()-1, rows, cols, Stride<Dynamic,-1>(-outerstride,-1));
+      VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1.reverse(), map2);
+    }
+  }
+
   internal::aligned_delete(a_array1, arraysize+1);
 }
 
@@ -200,7 +226,7 @@ void bug1453()
 EIGEN_DECLARE_TEST(mapstride)
 {
   for(int i = 0; i < g_repeat; i++) {
-    int maxn = 30;
+    int maxn = 3;
     CALL_SUBTEST_1( map_class_vector<Aligned>(Matrix<float, 1, 1>()) );
     CALL_SUBTEST_1( map_class_vector<Unaligned>(Matrix<float, 1, 1>()) );
     CALL_SUBTEST_2( map_class_vector<Aligned>(Vector4d()) );
diff --git a/test/product_extra.cpp b/test/product_extra.cpp
index bd31df84d..15c69896e 100644
--- a/test/product_extra.cpp
+++ b/test/product_extra.cpp
@@ -93,6 +93,22 @@ template<typename MatrixType> void product_extra(const MatrixType& m)
 
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m1.col(j2).adjoint() * m1.block(0,j,m1.rows(),c), m1.col(j2).adjoint().eval() * m1.block(0,j,m1.rows(),c).eval());
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m1.block(i,0,r,m1.cols()) * m1.row(i2).adjoint(), m1.block(i,0,r,m1.cols()).eval() * m1.row(i2).adjoint().eval());
+
+  // test negative strides
+  {
+    Map<MatrixType,Unaligned,Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic> > map1(&m1(rows-1,cols-1), rows, cols, Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic>(-m1.outerStride(),-1));
+    Map<MatrixType,Unaligned,Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic> > map2(&m2(rows-1,cols-1), rows, cols, Stride<Dynamic,Dynamic>(-m2.outerStride(),-1));
+    Map<RowVectorType,Unaligned,InnerStride<-1> > mapv1(&v1(v1.size()-1), v1.size(), InnerStride<-1>(-1));
+    Map<ColVectorType,Unaligned,InnerStride<-1> > mapvc2(&vc2(vc2.size()-1), vc2.size(), InnerStride<-1>(-1));
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(MatrixType(map1), m1.reverse());
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(MatrixType(map2), m2.reverse());
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m3.noalias() = MatrixType(map1) * MatrixType(map2).adjoint(), m1.reverse() * m2.reverse().adjoint());
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m3.noalias() = map1 * map2.adjoint(), m1.reverse() * m2.reverse().adjoint());
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1 * vc2, m1.reverse() * vc2);
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m1 * mapvc2, m1 * mapvc2);
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(map1.adjoint() * v1.transpose(), m1.adjoint().reverse() * v1.transpose());
+    VERIFY_IS_APPROX(m1.adjoint() * mapv1.transpose(), m1.adjoint() * v1.reverse().transpose());
+  }
   
   // regression test
   MatrixType tmp = m1 * m1.adjoint() * s1;