[binutils-gdb] gdbsupport: remove iteration_status_str

Simon Marchi simark@sourceware.org
Sat Apr 18 02:58:02 GMT 2026


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f2e83582f4f1c6374afdd919fed59d713a225c0e

commit f2e83582f4f1c6374afdd919fed59d713a225c0e
Author: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Date:   Fri Apr 17 22:41:52 2026 -0400

    gdbsupport: remove iteration_status_str
    
    When building with g++ 8 (on Alma Linux 8), we get:
    
          CXX    ada-exp.o
        In file included from /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/array-view.h:24,
                         from /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/common-utils.h:27,
                         from /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/common-defs.h:214,
                         from /binutils-gdb/gdb/defs.h:26,
                         from <command-line>:
        /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/iteration-status.h: In function ‘constexpr const char* iteration_status_str(iteration_status)’:
        /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/gdb_assert.h:43:22: error: call to non-‘constexpr’ function ‘void internal_error_loc(const char*, int, const char*, ...)’
           internal_error_loc (__FILE__, __LINE__, _("%s: " message), __func__, \
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 ##__VA_ARGS__)
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        /binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/iteration-status.h:45:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘gdb_assert_not_reached’
           gdb_assert_not_reached ("invalid iteration_status value");
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    
    It turns out that iteration_status_str isn't used, it apparently was
    only used transiently in my series.  Remove it to fix the build failure.
    
    Change-Id: Icb43d4d719ad94a3eafa5fd55c81a56cbe0da91d

Diff:
---
 gdbsupport/iteration-status.h | 15 ---------------
 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdbsupport/iteration-status.h b/gdbsupport/iteration-status.h
index c4c17fea4fb..9d0b56e1b2b 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/iteration-status.h
+++ b/gdbsupport/iteration-status.h
@@ -30,19 +30,4 @@ enum class iteration_status
   stop,
 };
 
-constexpr const char *
-iteration_status_str (iteration_status status)
-{
-  switch (status)
-    {
-    case iteration_status::keep_going:
-      return "keep_going";
-
-    case iteration_status::stop:
-      return "stop";
-    }
-
-  gdb_assert_not_reached ("invalid iteration_status value");
-}
-
 #endif /* GDBSUPPORT_ITERATION_STATUS_H */


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