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Re: build failure in TUI
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Gdb List <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:22:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: build failure in TUI
- References: <87d6s5mie5.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:15:14PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I just updated and rebuilt the gdb trunk on x86 Red Hat Linux 7.3.
>
> I get this:
>
> gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../src/gdb -I../../src/gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/home/tromey/gnu/baseline-gdb/install/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../src/gdb/../include/opcode -I../../src/gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I../../src/gdb/../bfd -I../../src/gdb/../include -I../intl -I../../src/gdb/../intl -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 -I../../src/gdb/tui -DGDBTK -DUI_OUT=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Werror ../../src/gdb/tui/tuiIO.c
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> ../../src/gdb/tui/tuiIO.c: In function `tui_redisplay_readline':
> ../../src/gdb/tui/tuiIO.c:190: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
> ../../src/gdb/tui/tuiIO.c:193: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
>
>
> This causes a failure because I configure with both --enable-tui and
> --enable-gdb-build-warnings=,-Werror.
>
> I looked at the code a bit. I think the simplest fix may be to change
> the definition of CTRL_CHAR (in readline/chardefs.h) to cast its
> argument to `unsigned char' (and then remove the `>= 0' check).
> However, I don't know the policy on changing readline, so I decided
> not to send a patch.
Debian has this:
#define CTRL_CHAR(c) ((c) < control_character_threshold && (((c) & 0x80) == 0))
I'm not sure offhand if this is fixed in stock readline 4.3, or if it
is Debian local.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer