[RFA] fix for utils.c bool problem

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Fri Feb 8 07:57:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:39:44PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:32:53PM -0800, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
> > Am I the only one seeing this?  On three different build systems I am getting errors like
> > 
> > gcc -c -g -O2  -I/usr/include/v9  -I. -I../../src/gdb -I../../src/gdb/config -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../src/gdb/../include/opcode -I../../src/gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I../../src/gdb/../bfd  -I../../src/gdb/../include -I../intl -I../../src/gdb/../intl  -DMI_OUT=1 -DGDBTK -DUI_OUT=1 -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized  ../../src/gdb/utils.c
> > In file included from /usr/progressive/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.96-gnupro-00r1/include/curses.h:5,
> >                  from ../../src/gdb/utils.c:30:
> > /usr/include/curses.h:69: conflicting types for `_Bool'
> > /usr/progressive/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5/2.96-gnupro-00r1/include/stdbool.h:41: previous declaration of `_Bool'
> > 
> > Some newer versions of gcc apparently have stdbool.h improvements that 
> > fix the problem.  Another fix is to simply reorder the patch, which fixes builds 
> > on all of my systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris)
> 
> This is the patch I alluded to earlier today on binutils@.  It's not
> quite complete, since TUI is also affected; I've attached mine.  I'm
> quite surprised that this fixes the problem for you without the
> corresponding bfd patch that I haven't committed yet!

No one objected, so I've committed this.  As far as I know GDB should
build everywhere it used to before I started playing with bool, as long
as you update both BFD and GDB.  If I'm wrong, please let me know.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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