diff --git a/test/mapstride.cpp b/test/mapstride.cpp
index d785148..fde73f2 100644
--- a/test/mapstride.cpp
+++ b/test/mapstride.cpp
@@ -162,6 +162,32 @@
     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);
 }
 
@@ -197,10 +223,10 @@
   VERIFY_IS_APPROX(RowMatrix32i::Map(data, InnerStride<>(2)), RowMatrixXi::Map(data, 3, 2, Stride<4,2>()));
 }
 
-void test_mapstride()
+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()) );