Does the attached patch fix the issue pointed out by Ulrich Weigand here: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00169.html ChangeLog 2014-06-04 Siva Chandra Reddy * python/py-xmethods.c (invoke_match_method) (gdbpy_get_matching_xmethod_workers, gdbpy_get_xmethod_arg_types): Cast the second arg to PyObject_GetAttrString and PyObject_GetAttrString to char *.