Piotr Rudnicki a8f4696286 gdb: handle struct and union types in evaluate_subexp_for_address_base
Suppose a function returns a struct and a method of that struct is
called.  E.g.:

  struct S
  {
    int a;
    int get () { return a; }
  };

  S f ()
  {
    S s;
    s.a = 42;
    return s;
  }

  ...
  int z = f().get();
  ...

GDB is able to evaluate the expression:

  (gdb) print f().get()
  $1 = 42

However, type-checking the expression fails:

  (gdb) ptype f().get()
  Attempt to take address of value not located in memory.

This happens because the `get` function takes an implicit `this`
pointer, which in this case is the value returned by `f()`, and GDB
wants to get an address for that value, as if passing the implicit
this pointer.  However, during type-checking, the struct value
returned by `f()` is a `not_lval`.

A similar issue exists for union types, where methods called on
temporary union objects would fail type-checking in the same way.

Address the problems by handling `TYPE_CODE_STRUCT` and
`TYPE_CODE_UNION` in `evaluate_subexp_for_address_base`.

With this change, for struct's method call, we get

  (gdb) ptype f().get()
  type = int

Add new test cases to file gdb.cp/chained-calls.exp to test this change.

Regression-tested in X86-64 Linux.
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