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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix 'incomplete type' warning in dummy_frame.h
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeljy2pq9g.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C5466D.6090906@avtrex.com> (David Daney's message of "Mon, 08 	Sep 2008 08:36:13 -0700")

David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> writes:

> Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> David Daney wrote:
>> 
>>> Back on 2008-08-26, Ulrich Weigand added a declaration for
>>> dummy_frame_pop to dummy_frame.h.  This causes a fatal warning when I
>>> build with gcc-3.4 targeting mipsel-linux-gnu because struct frame_id is
>>> an incomplete type.
>>>
>>> Adding #include "frame.h" fixes the problem for me.
>> 
>> Huh.  Sorry for the breakage.  Strange that this compiles without even
>> a warning with GCC 4.1.1 ...
>
> I think it may depend on the ABI.  The calling convention for passing a
> struct can vary depending on the size of the struct.

Only gcc 3.4 and before warn about this.  The standard does not require
complete parameter types in a function prototype that isn't also a
definition.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-08  1:00 David Daney
2008-09-08 11:25 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-09-08 15:36   ` David Daney
2008-09-08 16:16     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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