Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGVproblem]]

[Tim Mooney <mooney at dogbert dot cc dot ndsu dot nodak dot edu>]

In regard to: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: gdb 20000413 compile problem and strange SEGV...:

>Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> 
>> By ``object'' did you mean a warning or an error?
>> 
>> > I downloaded gdb+dejagnu-20000413.tar.bz2 and encountered one problem building
>> > it with the Compaq compiler: the compiler objected to comparisons between
>> > {current,debug}_target.to_rcmd and tcomplain (which was being case to (void
>> > *)).  I'm not sure why the cast to (void *) is there at all, but my first
>> > thought was to try casting tcomplain to be a pointer to a function,
>> > and that worked.  This is the patch I used:
>> 
>> Your change makes sense.  It was cast to (void*) since the functions
>> to_rcmd() and tcomplain() were not type incompatible.  The compaq
>> compiler is more picky about such things.
>
>FYI,
>
>I've just checked and GDB-5.0 build on an ``OSF1 V4.0 464 alpha'' using
>both GCC and the native CC.  I'll assume that these were compiler
>warnings rather than fatal compiler errors.  Consequently the cleanups
>should get merged into the trunk but not the GDB-5.0 branch.

Andrew-

Thanks for looking into this.

They were errors, not warnings.  The build stopped at that point.  This was
with the latest version of the vendor compiler on alpha-dec-osf4.0f (4.0f ==
Rev 1229, you can tell what the letter version is by running `sizer -v').
I don't know if I tried this on my 5.0 box at home, but I don't think so.
I think rev 464 is osf4.0b, which has a compiler that may not be as recent
as the current patched compiler on the later versions of the OS.

If you want to email me how I can get access to the 5.0 tree, I'll happily
test the build on a few different versions of the OS, including my 5.x box
at home.  If I just do a `cvs checkout' will I get the 5.0 tree, or do I have
to do something special?

Tim
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