Re: GDB CVS won't build on OSF4.0's cc

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > 
 > On 9 Jun 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
 > 
 > > Fixed as follows.  Not tested on all relevant architectures.  I'd do
 > > that after next Monday's GCC snapshot, since I've been building GDB
 > > along with GDB lately.  Ok to install?
 > [...]
 > > -  memset ((PTR) objfile->sym_stab_info, 0, sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info)); 
 > > +  memset ((void *) objfile->sym_stab_info, 0,
 > > +         sizeof (struct dbx_symfile_info));
 > 
 > Do we _really_ have compilers which require to cast the first argument of
 > memset to (void *)?  Which compiler(s) are those?  Isn't this a sign of a 
 > missing/conflicting prototype/header file?
 > 

Yes, I think we can safely get rid of these casts.
See a few line below, the call:

  memset (objfile->sym_private, 0, sizeof (struct coff_symfile_info));

Elena