Prompted by the creation of the gdb 8.0 branch, I tried to build it on
x86_64-pc-solaris2.12, but failed:
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0-branch/local/gdb/procfs.c: In function `target_ops* procfs_target()':
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0-branch/local/gdb/procfs.c:186:27: error: invalid conversion from `void (*)(target_ops*, char*, char*, char**, int)' to `void (*)(target_ops*, const char*, const string&, char**, int) {aka void (*)(target_ops*, const char*, const std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>&, char**, int)}' [-fpermissive]
t->to_create_inferior = procfs_create_inferior;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0-branch/local/gdb/procfs.c: At global scope:
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0-branch/local/gdb/procfs.c:125:13: warning: `void procfs_create_inferior(target_ops*, char*, char*, char**, int)' declared `static' but never defined [-Wunused-function]
static void procfs_create_inferior (struct target_ops *, char *,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb-8.0-branch/local/gdb/procfs.c:4529:1: warning: `void procfs_create_inferior(target_ops*, const char*, const string&, char**, int)' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
procfs_create_inferior (struct target_ops *ops, const char *exec_file,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This can easily be fixed by the following patch.
* procfs.c (procfs_create_inferior): Change prototype to match
definition.
+2017-05-15 Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
+
+ * procfs.c (procfs_create_inferior): Change prototype to match
+ definition.
+
2017-05-13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* tui/tui.c (tui_enable): Cast "unknown" to 'char *' to avoid a
int, unsigned char *);
static void procfs_kill_inferior (struct target_ops *ops);
static void procfs_mourn_inferior (struct target_ops *ops);
-static void procfs_create_inferior (struct target_ops *, char *,
- char *, char **, int);
+static void procfs_create_inferior (struct target_ops *, const char *,
+ const std::string &, char **, int);
static ptid_t procfs_wait (struct target_ops *,
ptid_t, struct target_waitstatus *, int);
static enum target_xfer_status procfs_xfer_memory (gdb_byte *,