Re: compiler error on PPC64

[Manoj Iyer <manjo@austin.ibm.com>]

Sorry forgot to add... This is using GDB 6.1 sources from CVS.

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Manoj

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Manoj Iyer wrote:

>
> I am getting an error message from the compiler on PPC64 (gcc version
> powerpc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.3.3-hammer)
>
> ppc-linux-tdep.c:956: error: parse error before numeric constant
>
> This happens when the file is compiled as 64bit, on suse with 2.6 kernel
> headers. What I think is wrong is that, is there any reason to use
>
> enum {
>   ELF_NGREG = 48,
>   ELF_NFPREG = 33,
>   ELF_NVRREG = 33
> };
>
> instead of using
>
> #define  ELF_NGREG  48
> #define  ELF_NFPREG  33
> #define  ELF_NVRREG  33
>
> Because, in the header file,
>
> /usr/include/asm-ppc64/elf.h:#define ELF_NGREG 48 /* includes nip, msr,
> lr, etc. */
>
> is already defined as 48 and the compiler sees 48 = 48 in the enum and so
> complains.
>
> Thanks
> Manoj Iyer
>
>