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From: Ciaran Woodward <ciaranwoodward@xmos.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Ciaran Woodward <ciaranwoodward@xmos.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] gdb/tui: Fix build for older ncurses
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:30:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250911183021.17844-1-ciaranwoodward@xmos.com> (raw)

Older versions of ncurses (including the version that ships inside
macos, and Centos 7) do not include the A_ITALIC macro. This patch
simply hides any use of A_ITALIC behind a preprocessor guard.

The result of this is that italics won't be rendered in the tui
if ncurses isn't supported. We do have other options if we think
it's important - for instance we could show italics as bold if
italics aren't supported. From my understanding, that might be
overthinking it - so I took the simplest approach here, just to
fix the build.

Those versions also define tgetnum as:
  int tgetnum(char *id);
so attempting to compile for c++ results in the error:
  ISO C++ forbids converting a string constant to 'char*' [-Werror=write-strings]

This is just a dated API issue, so a const cast resolves the issue.
---
 gdb/tui/tui-io.c | 4 ++++
 gdb/ui-style.c   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/tui/tui-io.c b/gdb/tui/tui-io.c
index c97e8fd1717..84cad9366d5 100644
--- a/gdb/tui/tui-io.c
+++ b/gdb/tui/tui-io.c
@@ -319,7 +319,9 @@ tui_apply_style (WINDOW *w, ui_file_style style)
   wattron (w, A_NORMAL);
   wattroff (w, A_BOLD);
   wattroff (w, A_DIM);
+#ifdef  A_ITALIC
   wattroff (w, A_ITALIC);
+#endif
   wattroff (w, A_UNDERLINE);
   wattroff (w, A_REVERSE);
   if (last_color_pair != -1)
@@ -368,8 +370,10 @@ tui_apply_style (WINDOW *w, ui_file_style style)
       gdb_assert_not_reached ("invalid intensity");
     }
 
+#ifdef  A_ITALIC
   if (style.is_italic ())
     wattron (w, A_ITALIC);
+#endif
 
   if (style.is_underline ())
     wattron (w, A_UNDERLINE);
diff --git a/gdb/ui-style.c b/gdb/ui-style.c
index 9a58e4dd2ae..ccc9094ca59 100644
--- a/gdb/ui-style.c
+++ b/gdb/ui-style.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ colorsupport ()
     {
       std::vector<color_space> result = {color_space::MONOCHROME};
 
-      int colors = tgetnum ("Co");
+      int colors = tgetnum (const_cast<char*> ("Co"));
       if (colors >= 8)
 	result.push_back (color_space::ANSI_8COLOR);
       if (colors >= 16)
-- 
2.25.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-11 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-11 18:30 Ciaran Woodward [this message]
2025-09-12 15:04 ` Tom Tromey
2025-09-12 17:17   ` Ciaran Woodward
2026-07-27 16:15     ` Daniel Fellows
2026-07-28 13:29       ` Ciaran Woodward
2026-07-28 13:38         ` Daniel Fellows

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