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Re: [rfc] [4/7] Modernize AIX target: inf-ptrace build fix
- From: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- To: uweigand at de dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:05:44 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [rfc] [4/7] Modernize AIX target: inf-ptrace build fix
- References: <200704242137.l3OLbODT007089@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:37:24 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> this is another small build fix that is a pre-requisite for the
> next patch (which adds inf-ptrace.c on AIX). The problem is that
> on AIX, PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3 is a pointer, and trying to cast a
> CORE_ADDR directly to it gives a compile warning.
>
> The patch adds an intermediate cast to "long" to fix this problem;
> there is precedent for this method in inf_ptrace_xfer_partial.
I don't like this, but I guess this is unavoidable, I think it's more
correct to use uintptr_t instead of long though.
Mark