Re: some compile errors fo gdb-7.0.1

[Harald Koenig]

Hi Pedro,

On Feb 18, Pedro Alves wrote:

> I encourage you to try building cvs head, or a recent
> snapshot with hp cc so catch other possible tweaks
> necessary, as gdb 7.1 is close to branching out.

thanks for the hint!  ok, so here are some more problems at least FYI, 
not sure if all of them can and must be fixed ?!   

with no specific order:

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SGI IRIX:

cc-1028 cc: ERROR File = gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c, Line = 1703
  The expression used must have a constant value.

        varobj_update_result r = {*varp};
                                   ^

using "gcc -pedantic" you'll get at least a warning about this problem:

gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1703: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time
gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1711: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time
gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1741: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time
gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1818: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time
gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1828: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time
gdb-CVS-20100222/gdb/varobj.c:1855: warning: initializer element is not 
computable at load time

a possible fix for the 1st error would be varobj.c.diff (attached).

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old bison/yacc:  

on some older linux I run into this problem:

   c-exp.y:2238: error: field 'value' has incomplete type

these are the distros and bison/byacc versions:

    suse 9.0    bison 1.75
    redhat 9    bison 1.35
    centos 5.0  byacc-1.9-29.2.2

the attached patch c-exp.y.diff seems to work both with bison-2.3 and
those older versions...

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Solaris

on solaris 5.8 (sparc, Sun C 5.7 2005/01/07) and 5.10 (sparc Sun C 5.8 
2005/10/13 and x86 Sun C 5.9 SunOS_i386 Patch 124868-01 2007/07/12) the cc 
complains about unknown __FUNCTION__ :

        "gdb-CVS-20100222/bfd/elfxx-sparc.c", line 2944: undefined symbol: 
__FUNCTION__
and
        "gdb-CVS-20100222/bfd/elf32-i386.c", line 1406: undefined symbol: 
__FUNCTION__
        "gdb-CVS-20100222/bfd/elf32-i386.c", line 3012: undefined symbol: 
__FUNCTION__


the short hack in bfd.diff is far from being perfect, just an example
how to get it compiling because
(a) it should check for C99 and/or solaris (e.g. if __func__ is really 
available -- looks like a autoconf thingy;)
(b) this check/define should be handled elsewhere at one central place
as there are more files "affected" :

gdb-CVS-20100222 > grep -rl __FUNCTION__ .
./bfd/elfxx-sparc.c
./bfd/bfd-in2.h
./bfd/nlm32-sparc.c
./bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
./bfd/elf32-i386.c
./bfd/elf32-bfin.c
./bfd/bfd-in.h
./sim/cris/traps.c
./gdb/ChangeLog-2004
./gdb/ChangeLog-2002
./gdb/ChangeLog-2000


as the ChangeLogs tell that's not really a new problem, IMHO I'd go with 
./gdb/ChangeLog-2000 ;-))

./gdb/ChangeLog-2000:   * uw-thread.c: Remove __FUNCTION__ GNUism.
./gdb/ChangeLog-2002:   __FUNCTION__.
./gdb/ChangeLog-2002:   * gnu-nat.c (do_mach_notify_no_senders): Replace 
__FUNCTION__ with
./gdb/ChangeLog-2004:   * ia64-tdep.c (ia64_find_proc_info_x): Do not use 
__FUNCTION__.

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AIX 5.3 

just FYI: while gdb 7.0.1 crashes when trying to start a program
(typing "gdb a.out" and "r" will SIGSEGV)...

gdb 7.1.50.20100222-cvs seems to work, at least running and simple break points 
work...
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varobj.c.diff
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c-exp.y.diff
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