[regressions in GCC/libjava testsuite] Re: Patch to make bfd compile with -Wc++-compat

[Martin Thuresson]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Martin Thuresson <martin@mtme.org> wrote:
> Here is a patch that fixes a bug introduced with my patch. Im sorry
> for the first mistake.
> I was unable to run make check on my mac laptop, but will do it on my
> linux box in 30 min
> or so.

"make check-binutils" passed on target x86_64-linux.  My change
was just a mechanical change to avoid C++ warning, so I have
nothing against the bigger issue being fixed.

2009-09-30  Martin Thuresson  <martin@mtme.org>

	* binutils/addr2line.c (slurp_symtab): Fixed pointer bug.


> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Martin Thuresson <martin@mtme.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:18:35AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 01:23:33AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>>> > It's the one applied to the binutils subdirectory.
>>>>
>>>> It is probably the addr2line.c change.  Try this:
>>>
>>> That's not the right patch, but does identify the breakage..
>>> bfd_read_minisymbols ought to take a void * param instead of void **,
>>> I think.
>>
>> The issue in questions seems to be my patch from here:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-09/msg00276.html
>>
>> I cant recall why my change stopped the -Wc++-error. Ill take
>> a look and will submit a fix.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> Excerpt:
>>
>> diff -u -u -p -r1.33 addr2line.c
>> --- binutils/addr2line.c        2 Sep 2009 07:22:31 -0000       1.33
>> +++ binutils/addr2line.c        9 Sep 2009 23:01:26 -0000
>> @@ -102,13 +102,14 @@ slurp_symtab (bfd *abfd)
>>  {
>>   long symcount;
>>   unsigned int size;
>> +  void *minisyms = &syms;
>>
>>   if ((bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & HAS_SYMS) == 0)
>>     return;
>>
>> -  symcount = bfd_read_minisymbols (abfd, FALSE, (void *) &syms, &size);
>> +  symcount = bfd_read_minisymbols (abfd, FALSE, &minisyms, &size);
>>   if (symcount == 0)
>> -    symcount = bfd_read_minisymbols (abfd, TRUE /* dynamic */, (void
>> *) &syms, &size);
>> +    symcount = bfd_read_minisymbols (abfd, TRUE /* dynamic */,
>> &minisyms, &size);
>>
>>   if (symcount < 0)
>>     bfd_fatal (bfd_get_filename (abfd));
>>
>