From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB CVS won't build on OSF4.0's cc
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 06:32:00 -0000
Message-id: <15140.51330.863252.235133@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00208.html

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