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
next 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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