Re: Bad checkin breaks Linux

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

H . J . Lu writes:
 > This patch
 > 
 > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-01/msg00195.html
 > 
 > breaks Linux targets which don't use PTRACE_GETFPXREGS. The problem is
 > <sys/ptrace.h> has
 > 
 >   /* Single step the process.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >   PTRACE_SINGLESTEP = 9,
 > #define PT_STEP PTRACE_SINGLESTEP
 > 
 >   /* Get all general purpose registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_GETREGS = 12,
 > #define PT_GETREGS PTRACE_GETREGS
 > 
 >   /* Set all general purpose registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_SETREGS = 13,
 > #define PT_SETREGS PTRACE_SETREGS
 > 
 >   /* Get all floating point registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_GETFPREGS = 14,
 > #define PT_GETFPREGS PTRACE_GETFPREGS
 > 
 >   /* Set all floating point registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_SETFPREGS = 15,
 > #define PT_SETFPREGS PTRACE_SETFPREGS
 > 
 >   /* Get all extended floating point registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_GETFPXREGS = 18,
 > #define PT_GETFPXREGS PTRACE_GETFPXREGS
 > 
 >   /* Set all extended floating point registers used by a processes.
 >      This is not supported on all machines.  */
 >    PTRACE_SETFPXREGS = 19,
 > #define PT_SETFPXREGS PTRACE_SETFPXREGS
 > 
 > You can't assume you can use PTRACE_GETFPXREGS if it is defined. Due
 > to that change, gdb won't build on Linux/mips. I am afraid the current
 > gdb from CVS may be broken even without that patch:
 > 
 > # gcc -c -g -O2    -I. -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/config -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/../include/opcode -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/../bfd -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/../include -I../intl -I/home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/../intl  -DMI_OUT=1 -DUI_OUT=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized  /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c
 > /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c: In function
 > `enable_thread_event_reporting':
 > /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c:398: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
 > /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c:411: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
 > /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c: In function `thread_db_store_registers':
 > /home/hjl/work/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/thread-db.c:843: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type
 > 

FWIW, about the last warning, see the thread:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-11/msg00203.html


Elena


 > 
 > H.J.