Re: [PATCH] Make host_address_to_string/gdb_print_host_address cast parameter to 'void *'

Pedro Alves
2015-10-27T17:21:38Z

On 10/27/2015 04:55 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 27 October 2015 at 12:01, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Fixes a set of errors like:
>>
>> ../../src/gdb/symfile-debug.c: In function ‘int debug_qf_map_symtabs_matching_filename(objfile*, const char*, const char*, int (*)(symtab*, void*), void*)’:
>> ../../src/gdb/symfile-debug.c:137:39: error: invalid conversion from ‘int (*)(symtab*, void*)’ to ‘const void*’ [-fpermissive]
>> host_address_to_string (callback),
>> ^
>>
>> Note this has to work with data and function pointers. In C++11 we
>> may perhaps do something a bit safer, but we're not there yet, and I
>> don't think it really matters. For now just always do a simple
>> C-style cast in host_address_to_string itself. No point in adding a
>> void * cast to each and every caller.
>>
>> gdb/ChangeLog:
>> 2015-10-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>>
>> * common/print-utils.c (host_address_to_string): Undef.
>> * common/print-utils.h (host_address_to_string): Add a wrapper
>> macro around the host_address_to_string function.
>> * utils.c ():
>
> You can drop this last line.

Whoops.

> I'm not a fan of the #undef, it makes it harder to follow what's
> happening. Why not just rename the existing function to
> host_address_to_string_1?
>
> Same for gdb_print_host_address.

I guess I was trying to keep "b gdb_print_host_address" working
or something. Aka, no real good reason. Here's the updated patch.

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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:57:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make host_address_to_string/gdb_print_host_address cast
parameter to 'void *'
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Fixes a set of errors like:

../../src/gdb/symfile-debug.c: In function ‘int debug_qf_map_symtabs_matching_filename(objfile*, const char*, const char*, int (*)(symtab*, void*), void*)’:
../../src/gdb/symfile-debug.c:137:39: error: invalid conversion from ‘int (*)(symtab*, void*)’ to ‘const void*’ [-fpermissive]
host_address_to_string (callback),
^

Note this has to work with data and function pointers. In C++11 we
may perhaps do something a bit safer, but we're not there yet, and I
don't think it really matters. For now just always do a simple
C-style cast in host_address_to_string itself. No point in adding a
void * cast to each and every caller.

gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-10-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

* common/print-utils.c (host_address_to_string): Rename to ...
(host_address_to_string_1): ... this.
* common/print-utils.h (host_address_to_string): Reimplement as
wrapper around host_address_to_string_1.
* utils.c (gdb_print_host_address): Rename to ...
(gdb_print_host_address_1): ... this.
* utils.h (gdb_print_host_address): Reimplement as wrapper macro
around host_address_to_string_1.
---
gdb/common/print-utils.c | 2 +-
gdb/common/print-utils.h | 6 +++++-
gdb/utils.c | 2 +-
gdb/utils.h | 6 +++++-
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/common/print-utils.c b/gdb/common/print-utils.c
index 1c1a5c1..7eba07d 100644
--- a/gdb/common/print-utils.c
+++ b/gdb/common/print-utils.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ core_addr_to_string_nz (const CORE_ADDR addr)
/* See print-utils.h. */

const char *
-host_address_to_string (const void *addr)
+host_address_to_string_1 (const void *addr)
{
char *str = get_cell ();

diff --git a/gdb/common/print-utils.h b/gdb/common/print-utils.h
index 8d16966..49bc09a 100644
--- a/gdb/common/print-utils.h
+++ b/gdb/common/print-utils.h
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ extern const char *core_addr_to_string (const CORE_ADDR addr);

extern const char *core_addr_to_string_nz (const CORE_ADDR addr);

-extern const char *host_address_to_string (const void *addr);
+extern const char *host_address_to_string_1 (const void *addr);
+
+/* Wrapper that avoids adding a pointless cast to all callers. */
+#define host_address_to_string(ADDR) \
+ host_address_to_string_1 ((const void *) (ADDR))

#endif /* COMMON_CELLS_H */
diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
index afeff12..255aee8 100644
--- a/gdb/utils.c
+++ b/gdb/utils.c
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ print_spaces (int n, struct ui_file *file)
/* Print a host address. */

void
-gdb_print_host_address (const void *addr, struct ui_file *stream)
+gdb_print_host_address_1 (const void *addr, struct ui_file *stream)
{
fprintf_filtered (stream, "%s", host_address_to_string (addr));
}
diff --git a/gdb/utils.h b/gdb/utils.h
index 995a1cf..e1f3827 100644
--- a/gdb/utils.h
+++ b/gdb/utils.h
@@ -246,7 +246,11 @@ extern void fputstrn_unfiltered (const char *str, int n, int quotr,
extern int filtered_printing_initialized (void);

/* Display the host ADDR on STREAM formatted as ``0x%x''. */
-extern void gdb_print_host_address (const void *addr, struct ui_file *stream);
+extern void gdb_print_host_address_1 (const void *addr, struct ui_file *stream);
+
+/* Wrapper that avoids adding a pointless cast to all callers. */
+#define gdb_print_host_address(ADDR, STREAM) \
+ gdb_print_host_address_1 ((const void *) ADDR, STREAM)

/* Convert CORE_ADDR to string in platform-specific manner.
This is usually formatted similar to 0x%lx. */
--
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