Building current gdb mainline with gcc 7.1 on Solaris 11.4 fails: /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c: In function ‘void _initialize_sol_thread()’: /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c:1229:66: error: invalid conversion from ‘void (*)(char*, int)’ to ‘void (*)(const char*, int)’ [-fpermissive] _("Show info on Solaris user threads."), &maintenanceinfolist); ^ In file included from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/completer.h:21:0, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/symtab.h:31, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/language.h:26, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/frame.h:72, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/gdbarch.h:39, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/defs.h:557, from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c:51: /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/command.h:140:33: note: initializing argument 3 of ‘cmd_list_element* add_cmd(const char*, command_class, void (*)(const char*, int), const char*, cmd_list_element**)’ extern struct cmd_list_element *add_cmd (const char *, enum command_class, ^~~~~~~ The following patch allows compilation to succeed on i386-pc-solaris2.11 and sparc-sun-solaris2.11. Ok for mainline? Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University 2017-11-27 Rainer Orth * sol-thread.c (td_ta_thr_iter_ftype): Constify cbdata_p. (info_solthreads): Constify args.