Re: C++ conversion status update

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 04/19/2016 07:22 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> Thanks, I was able to test it and it works great on FreeBSD/amd64.

Great, thanks for confirming.

> The only remaining issue is that FreeBSD's stack_t defines ss_sp as char *
> instead of void *.  Apparently 4.4BSD had this and the other BSD's fixed this
> long ago.  When I first ran into this in January I fixed FreeBSD's trunk, so
> 11.0 will ship with a proper ss_sp of void *, but older releases will not.
> 

> The affected code is in setup_alternate_signal_stack() in gdb/main.c where
> ss_sp is assigned to the void * returned from xmalloc().
> 
> I was torn between just supporting C++ builds on FreeBSD 11 and later, or
> adding autoconf glue for just this part.  However, given that it seems like
> the recent discussion is to deprecate C mode in the near future, it seems
> like I should  do the latter.  Do you have any better suggestions?
> 

C++ allows conversion to 'void *' without a cast.  So I think
we just need to do:

 - ss.ss_sp = xmalloc (SIGSTKSZ);
 + ss.ss_sp = (char *) xmalloc (SIGSTKSZ);

and it'll work on both char * and void * hosts.  I tried it
here on GNU/Linux, where ss_sp is void *, and it works.

Would you like to send that as a patch (with a comment)?

We can leave adding an autoconf check if some other host uses
a type different than void * and char *.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves