From: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include, opcodes: prefix REG_* macros in cris.h, nds32.h and microblaze-opcm.h
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:55:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yddik57kv23.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260818202744.171176-1-simon.marchi@efficios.com> (Simon Marchi's message of "Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:27:29 -0400")
Hi Simon,
> Bug 34537 reports:
>
> When building gdb with the default configure options of gdb buildbots (which
> include --enable-targets=all), gdb fails to build:
>
> CXX microblaze-tdep.o
> In file included from ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/microblaze-tdep.c:37:
> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/../opcodes/microblaze-opcm.h:101:9: error: ‘REG_PC’ redefined [-Werror]
> 101 | #define REG_PC 32 /* PC. */
> | ^~~~~~
> In file included from /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:14,
> from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:197,
> from /usr/include/sys/procset.h:17,
> from /usr/include/sys/wait.h:22,
> from ../gnulib/import/sys/wait.h:28,
> from /usr/include/stdlib.h:16,
> from /usr/gcc/16/include/c++/16.1.0/cstdlib:83,
> from ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/common-defs.h:107,
> from ./../../binutils-gdb/gdb/defs.h:26,
> from <command-line>:
> /usr/include/sys/regset.h:158:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> 158 | #define REG_PC REG_RIP
> | ^~~~~~
> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/../opcodes/microblaze-opcm.h:120:9: error: ‘REG_SP’ redefined [-Werror]
> 120 | #define REG_SP 1 /* stack pointer. */
> | ^~~~~~
> /usr/include/sys/regset.h:160:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
> 160 | #define REG_SP REG_RSP
> | ^~~~~~
[...]
> Attempt to fix it by prefixing the macros with the arch name.
>
> I only modified the macros starting with "REG_", but there are other
> macros with very generic names (e.g. "MAX_REG") that could be renamed
> too (for consistency, IMO, all the macros in those files should be
> prefixed the same way).
Thanks for doing this: I wasn't sure how best to address this.
> I couldn't build-test this patch on Solaris, but it build with
> --enable-targets=all on Linux.
I'll give it a whirl tomorrow. Just in case, there are Solaris 11.4
systems in the cfarm for some time now (cfarm216 for sparc and cfarm215
for x86).
Rainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-18 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-18 20:27 Simon Marchi
2026-08-18 20:55 ` Rainer Orth [this message]
2026-08-19 5:03 ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-19 9:11 ` Rainer Orth
2026-08-19 12:35 ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-21 8:03 ` Alan Modra
2026-08-22 5:19 ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-19 17:32 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2026-08-19 17:58 ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-19 19:11 ` Rainer Orth
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