Re[2]: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

Re[2]: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

[rodneybrown]

For what it is worth the xlc lslpp information is

Fileset  Level  State Description
xlC.C    3.1.4.0  C   C for AIX Compiler


I note that my copy of the ANSI-C Standard
ISO/IEC 9899: 1990 Programming languages-C

doesn't have the trailing comma varient in section 6.5.2.2

A colleague notes that VMS Dec C gives a warning for the idiom.

____________________Reply Separator____________________
Subject:    Re: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc 
Author: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> 
Date:       17/03/99 19:24

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> rodneybrown@pmsc.com wrote:
> >
> > AIX 4.2.0.0 xlc gives an error for trailing commas in enum declarations
> > Specifically compiling gdb-4.17.86/gdb/blockframe.c it gives
> >
> > "gdb-4.17.86/gdb/target.h", line 57.22: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> > "gdb-4.17.86/gdb/breakpoint.h", line 114.17: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
> 
> Thanks,

Hmm (is this a nightmare comming true?),

Looking at C manual:

6.5.2.2 Enumeration specifiers
Syntax
  enum-specifier:
    enum identifieropt { enumerator-list }
    enum identifieropt { enumerator-list , }
    enum identifier
  enumerator-list:
    enumerator
    enumerator-list , enumerator
  enumerator:
    enumeration-constant
    enumeration-constant = constant-expression

and the relevant line:

enum thread_control_capabilities {
        tc_none = 0,            /* Default: can't control thread
execution. */
        tc_schedlock = 1,       /* Can lock the thread scheduler. */
        tc_switch = 2,          /* Can switch the running thread on
demand. */
};

So, what to do about this one?

        Andrew

Re: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

[Andrew Cagney]

rodneybrown@pmsc.com wrote:
> 
> For what it is worth the xlc lslpp information is
> 
> Fileset  Level  State Description
> xlC.C    3.1.4.0  C   C for AIX Compiler
> 
> I note that my copy of the ANSI-C Standard
> ISO/IEC 9899: 1990 Programming languages-C
> 
> doesn't have the trailing comma varient in section 6.5.2.2

Er, oops wrong ISO-C document, sorry.  Just pretend I didn't post that
:-)

Assuming that you're GPL assigned, would you be able to investigate the
compile problems using the AIX compiler?

	Andrew

Re: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

[Stan Shebs]

   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:05:07 +1100
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>

   Assuming that you're GPL assigned, would you be able to investigate the
   compile problems using the AIX compiler?

I assumed those two trailers were the only mistakes and already
committed the fixes.  Any other such mistakes would likely have been
fixed long ago, because of previous xlc or other compiler runs - these
two enums were recently introduced/modified.

							Stan

Re: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

[Andrew Cagney]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> I assumed those two trailers were the only mistakes and already
> committed the fixes.  Any other such mistakes would likely have been
> fixed long ago, because of previous xlc or other compiler runs - these
> two enums were recently introduced/modified.

I'm not sure what you're asking here.

That code has always compliled with GCC.  What is new is that the
4.17.86 smap is being exposed to the wims of XLC (a different ISO-C
compiler).

I can probably dig up an AIX box with XLC and work through the errors it
produces.  However, if someone else can report back on XLC (with a
patch) it is going to happen much quicker.

	enjoy,
		Andrew

Re: 4.17.86 on AIX 4.2.0.0 using IBM xlc

[Stan Shebs]

   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:37:51 +1100
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>

   Stan Shebs wrote:
   > I assumed those two trailers were the only mistakes and already
   > committed the fixes.  Any other such mistakes would likely have been
   > fixed long ago, because of previous xlc or other compiler runs - these
   > two enums were recently introduced/modified.

   I'm not sure what you're asking here.

   That code has always compliled with GCC.  What is new is that the
   4.17.86 smap is being exposed to the wims of XLC (a different ISO-C
   compiler).

Actually - everybody hold on to your hats - this isn't the first time
that GDB has been compiled with compilers other than GCC. :-)  The
official expectation is that GDB is portable C code, and that it can
be compiled and built by any reasonable C compiler.

   I can probably dig up an AIX box with XLC and work through the errors it
   produces.  However, if someone else can report back on XLC (with a
   patch) it is going to happen much quicker.

Yes.  To be honest, testing GDB with every possible compiler is not a
good use of Cygnus maintainers' time, so I'd prefer to rely on our
esteemed volunteers for this kind of testing (and indeed they've been
doing a great job of catching mistakes, thanks folks!)

								Stan

gdb-19990209 on sparc-2.5.1

[Guenther Grau]

Hi,

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Actually - everybody hold on to your hats - this isn't the first time
> that GDB has been compiled with compilers other than GCC. :-)  The
> official expectation is that GDB is portable C code, and that it can
> be compiled and built by any reasonable C compiler.

Ok, after I read that, I dl'd gdb-19990209.tar.gz. Is that really
the lastest snapshot (4.17.86) everybody is talking about?
Well, anyways, on my sparc-solaris 2.5.1 I did

setenv CC cc
./configure
make

and found a few glitches (i.e. warnings :-) and a make error.

cc is from SunWorkshop Solaris 4.2.

I attached the output during the build process. I haven't had
time to look into this further as I will need to go to sleep
now :-)

  Guenther
;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
;; If you want to create a file, first visit that file with C-x C-f,
;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.

gorgo% make
if [ x"no" = xyes ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \
  mkdir pic; \
else true; fi
touch stamp-picdir
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   argv.c -o pic/argv.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  argv.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   choose-temp.c -o pic/choose-temp.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  choose-temp.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   concat.c -o pic/concat.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  concat.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   cplus-dem.c -o pic/cplus-dem.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  cplus-dem.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   fdmatch.c -o pic/fdmatch.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  fdmatch.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   fnmatch.c -o pic/fnmatch.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  fnmatch.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   getopt.c -o pic/getopt.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  getopt.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   getopt1.c -o pic/getopt1.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  getopt1.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   getruntime.c -o pic/getruntime.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  getruntime.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   hex.c -o pic/hex.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  hex.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   floatformat.c -o pic/floatformat.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  floatformat.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   mkstemp.c -o pic/mkstemp.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  mkstemp.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   objalloc.c -o pic/objalloc.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  objalloc.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   obstack.c -o pic/obstack.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  obstack.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   pexecute.c -o pic/pexecute.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  pexecute.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   spaces.c -o pic/spaces.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  spaces.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   splay-tree.c -o pic/splay-tree.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  splay-tree.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   strerror.c -o pic/strerror.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  strerror.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   strsignal.c -o pic/strsignal.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  strsignal.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   xatexit.c -o pic/xatexit.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  xatexit.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   xexit.c -o pic/xexit.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  xexit.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   xmalloc.c -o pic/xmalloc.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  xmalloc.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   xstrdup.c -o pic/xstrdup.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  xstrdup.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   xstrerror.c -o pic/xstrerror.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  xstrerror.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   asprintf.c -o pic/asprintf.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  asprintf.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   basename.c -o pic/basename.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  basename.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   sigsetmask.c -o pic/sigsetmask.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  sigsetmask.c
test x"no" != xyes || \
  cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include   vasprintf.c -o pic/vasprintf.o
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I./../include  vasprintf.c
rm -f libiberty.a
ar rc libiberty.a \
  argv.o choose-temp.o concat.o cplus-dem.o  fdmatch.o fnmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getruntime.o hex.o  floatformat.o mkstemp.o objalloc.o obstack.o pexecute.o spaces.o  splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o  xstrdup.o xstrerror.o  asprintf.o basename.o sigsetmask.o vasprintf.o 
true libiberty.a
f="asprintf.o basename.o sigsetmask.o vasprintf.o  "; \
case $f in \
  *alloca.o*) f="$f xmalloc.o xexit.o" ;; \
esac; \
echo $f > needed-list
echo argv.o choose-temp.o concat.o cplus-dem.o  fdmatch.o fnmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getruntime.o hex.o  floatformat.o mkstemp.o objalloc.o obstack.o pexecute.o spaces.o  splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o  xstrdup.o xstrerror.o > required-list
make  all-recursive
Making all in intl
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  intl-compat.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  bindtextdom.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  dcgettext.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  dgettext.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  gettext.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  finddomain.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  loadmsgcat.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  localealias.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  textdomain.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  l10nflist.c
cc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\"  -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl -I../lib  -g  explodename.c
rm -f libintl.a
ar cru libintl.a intl-compat.o bindtextdom.o dcgettext.o dgettext.o gettext.o  finddomain.o loadmsgcat.o localealias.o textdomain.o l10nflist.o  explodename.o
ranlib libintl.a
Making all in lib
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -g -c getopt.c
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -g -c getopt1.c
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -g -c xmalloc.c
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl    -g -c xstrdup.c
rm -f libtxi.a
ar cru libtxi.a getopt.o getopt1.o xmalloc.o xstrdup.o 
ranlib libtxi.a
Making all in info
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c dir.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c display.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c makedoc.c
cc  -g  -o makedoc  makedoc.o ../lib/libtxi.a  -lcurses ../intl/libintl.a 
./makedoc ./session.c ./echo-area.c ./infodoc.c  ./m-x.c ./indices.c ./nodemenu.c  ./footnotes.c ./variables.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c doc.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c dribble.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c echo-area.c
"echo-area.c", line 1290: warning: argument #4 is incompatible with prototype:
        prototype: pointer to function(pointer to const void, pointer to const void) returning int : "/usr/include/stdlib.h", line 97
        argument : pointer to function(pointer to pointer to struct {pointer to char label, pointer to char filename, pointer to char nodename,...
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c filesys.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c footnotes.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c gc.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c indices.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c info-utils.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c info.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c infodoc.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c infomap.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c m-x.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c man.c
cc -DINFODIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/info\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/users/grau/tools/gdb/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../lib -I../intl -I.. -I.    -g -c nodemenu.c
"nodemenu.c", line 166: warning: argument #4 is incompatible with prototype:
        prototype: pointer to function(pointer to const void, pointer to const void) returning int : "/usr/include/stdlib.h", line 97
From shebs@cygnus.com Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 1999
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>
To: cagney@cygnus.com
Cc: gdb@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Which ANSI-C compiler?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <199903240259.SAA11164@andros.cygnus.com>
References: <36F84161.637FE9BE@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q1/msg00155.html
Content-length: 523

   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:35:29 +1100
   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>

   [Jim sorry]

   With GDB trialing the move to ANSI-C it will probably be helpful if
   there is a list of recommended compilers available.

Hmmm.  Most compilers that people have will be in the recommended
category I think, so it might be simpler just to mention the compilers
that we know will be a problem?  In either case, that's a good idea for
an addition to README and NEWS, so people aren't caught by surprise.

							Stan

Re: gdb-19990209 on sparc-2.5.1

[Stan Shebs]

   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:29:50 +0100
   From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>

   Stan Shebs wrote:
   > Actually - everybody hold on to your hats - this isn't the first time
   > that GDB has been compiled with compilers other than GCC. :-)  The
   > official expectation is that GDB is portable C code, and that it can
   > be compiled and built by any reasonable C compiler.

   Ok, after I read that, I dl'd gdb-19990209.tar.gz. Is that really
   the lastest snapshot (4.17.86) everybody is talking about?

No.  4.17.86 is similar to 19990209, but comes from a branch that was
sprouted from the trunk on 15 Feb, and includes a bunch of little
fixes that were done as part of the pre-release testing process.
19990209 is derived from the repository trunk by whacking out
Cygnus-only bits.  You should see fewer problems with 4.17.86.

   Well, anyways, on my sparc-solaris 2.5.1 I did

   setenv CC cc
   ./configure
   make

   and found a few glitches (i.e. warnings :-) and a make error.

   cc is from SunWorkshop Solaris 4.2.

   I attached the output during the build process. I haven't had
   time to look into this further as I will need to go to sleep
   now :-)

Try 4.17.86 instead - I remember something about a configuration
problem in opcodes in a snapshot, that might be the one.

							Stan

Re: gdb-19990209 on sparc-2.5.1

[Guenther Grau]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> No.  4.17.86 is similar to 19990209, but comes from a branch that was
> sprouted from the trunk on 15 Feb, and includes a bunch of little
> fixes that were done as part of the pre-release testing process.
> 19990209 is derived from the repository trunk by whacking out
> Cygnus-only bits.  You should see fewer problems with 4.17.86.
[...]
> Try 4.17.86 instead - I remember something about a configuration
> problem in opcodes in a snapshot, that might be the one.

Ok. I did that, and it does indeed build properly. The warnings
are still there, though. Do you accept any patches fixing the
warnings? 

  Guenther

P.S.: Don't expect any quick responses. I'll be out of office
till Tuesday.

Re: gdb-19990209 on sparc-2.5.1

[Guenther Grau]

Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
>    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:37:44 +0100
>    From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
> 
>    Stan Shebs wrote:
>    > No.  4.17.86 is similar to 19990209, but comes from a branch that was
>    > sprouted from the trunk on 15 Feb, and includes a bunch of little
>    > fixes that were done as part of the pre-release testing process.
>    > 19990209 is derived from the repository trunk by whacking out
>    > Cygnus-only bits.  You should see fewer problems with 4.17.86.
>    [...]
>    > Try 4.17.86 instead - I remember something about a configuration
>    > problem in opcodes in a snapshot, that might be the one.
> 
>    Ok. I did that, and it does indeed build properly. The warnings
>    are still there, though. Do you accept any patches fixing the
>    warnings?
> 
> Sure, but not for 4.18, it's time to get it into users' hands.
> 
> Fortunately, this isn't going to be the last GDB release ever :-), so
> it's still worthwhile to make all the warnings go away.  Andrew C.
> has been bashing many of them, but there are lots left...

That's fine with me. I prefer a clear statement as to when things
are wellcome, and when not. I'll see what I can do for the first
snapshot after 4.18.

On the way of leaveing my office ...

  Guenther