This new option, disabled by default for now, allows specifying
whether to build GDB, GDBserver, and friends with a C++ (98/03)
compiler.
The name of the switch should be familiar to those who followed GCC's
own C++ conversion process.
. Adding -fpermissive to COMPILER in C++ mode (see the new
build-with-cxx.m4 file) makes errors like these be warnings instead:
gdb/infrun.c:6597:1: error: initializing argument 1 of ‘void sig_print_info(gdb_signal)’ [-fpermissive]
sig_print_info (enum gdb_signal oursig)
^
gdb/infrun.c: In function ‘void do_restore_infcall_suspend_state_cleanup(void*)’:
gdb/infrun.c:7164:39: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘infcall_suspend_state*’ [-fpermissive]
restore_infcall_suspend_state (state);
^
so that the compiler carries on compiling the file. -Werror still
catches the warnings, so nothing is lost, only our lifes are made
easier by concentrating on getting other more important things out of
the way first.
There's no way to quiet those warnings. Until they're all fixed, when
building in C++ mode, -Werror is disabled by default.
. Adding -Wno-narrowing suppresses thousands of instances of this warning:
gdb/arm-linux-tdep.c:439:1: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-1’ from ‘int’ to ‘ULONGEST {aka long unsigned int}’ inside { } is ill-formed in C++11 [-Werror=narrowing]
gdb/arm-linux-tdep.c:439:1: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-1l’ from ‘LONGEST {aka long int}’ to ‘ULONGEST {aka long unsigned int}’ inside { } is ill-formed in C++11 [-Werror=narrowing]
gdb/arm-linux-tdep.c:450:1: error: narrowing conversion of ‘-1’ from ‘int’ to ‘ULONGEST {aka long unsigned int}’ inside { } is ill-formed in C++11 [-Werror=narrowing]
We can defer handling those until we target C++11.
. Adding -Wno-sign-compare suppresses thousands of instances of this warning:
gdb/linux-record.c:1763:32: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
if (tmpulongest == tdep->fcntl_F_GETLK64)
^
. Adding -Wno-write-strings suppresses thousands of instances of this warning:
gdb/mi/mi-cmd-var.c: In function ‘void mi_cmd_var_show_attributes(char*, char**, int)’:
gdb/mi/mi-cmd-var.c:514:12: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
attstr = "editable";
^
gdb/mi/mi-cmd-var.c:516:12: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]
attstr = "noneditable";
^
For now, it's best to hide these warnings from view until we're
'-fpermissive'-clean, and can thus start building with -Werror.
The C compiler has always managed to build working GDBs with these
issues in the code, so a C++ compiler should too.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-02-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in (COMPILER): New, get it from autoconf.
(COMPILE.pre, CC_LD): Use COMPILER.
(CXX): Get from autoconf instead.
(CXX_FOR_TARGET): Default to g++ instead of gcc.
* acinclude.m4: Include build-with-cxx.m4.
* build-with-cxx.m4: New file.
* configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_CXX and GDB_AC_BUILD_WITH_CXX.
Disable -Werror by default if building in C++ mode.
(build_warnings): Add -Wno-sign-compare, -Wno-write-strings and
-Wno-narrowing in C++ mode. Only enable -Wpointer-sign in C mode.
Run supported-warning-flags tests with the C++ compiler.
Save/restore CXXFLAGS too.
* configure: Regenerate.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2015-02-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in (COMPILER): New, get it from autoconf.
(CXX): Get from autoconf instead.
(COMPILE.pre): Use COMPILER.
(CC-LD): Rename to ...
(CC_LD): ... this. Use COMPILER.
(gdbserver$(EXEEXT), gdbreplay$(EXEEXT), $(IPA_LIB)): Adjust.
(CXX_FOR_TARGET): Default to g++ instead of gcc.
* acinclude.m4: Include build-with-cxx.m4.
* configure.ac: Call AC_PROG_CXX and GDB_AC_BUILD_WITH_CXX.
Disable -Werror by default if building in C++ mode.
(build_warnings): Add -Wno-sign-compare, -Wno-write-strings and
-Wno-narrowing in C++ mode. Run supported-warning-flags tests with
the C++ compiler. Save/restore CXXFLAGS too.
* configure: Regenerate.
Converting GDB to be a C++ program, I stumbled on 'basename' issues,
like:
src/gdb/../include/ansidecl.h:169:64: error: new declaration ‘char* basename(const char*)’
/usr/include/string.h:597:26: error: ambiguates old declaration ‘const char* basename(const char*)’
which I believe led to this bit in gold's configure.ac:
dnl We have to check these in C, not C++, because autoconf generates
dnl tests which have no type information, and current glibc provides
dnl multiple declarations of functions like basename when compiling
dnl with C++.
AC_CHECK_DECLS([basename, ffs, asprintf, vasprintf, snprintf, vsnprintf, strverscmp])
These checks IIUC intend to generate all the HAVE_DECL_FOO symbols
that libiberty.h and ansidecl.h check.
GDB is missing these checks currently, which results in the conflict
shown above.
This adds an m4 file that both GDB and GDBserver's configury use to
pull in the autoconf checks that libiberty clients needs done in order
to use these libiberty.h/ansidecl.h.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-02-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* libiberty.m4: New file.
* acinclude.m4: Include libiberty.m4.
* configure.ac: Call libiberty_INIT.
* config.in, configure: Regenerate.
gdb/gdbserver/
2015-02-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* acinclude.m4: Include libiberty.m4.
* configure.ac: Call libiberty_INIT.
* config.in, configure: Regenerate.
This patch introduces a new M4 macro GDB_AC_TRANSFORM to avoid repeating
the common idiom which is the transformation of target program names,
i.e. from gdb to sparc64-linux-gnu-gdb. It also makes gdb/configure.ac
and gdb/testsuite/configure.ac to use the new macro.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-02-18 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.ac: Use GDB_AC_TRANSFORM.
* Makefile.in (aclocal_m4_deps): Added transform.m4.
* acinclude.m4: sinclude transform.m4.
* transform.m4: New file.
(GDB_AC_TRANSFORM): New macro.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-02-18 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.ac: Use GDB_AC_TRANSFORM.
* aclocal.m4: sinclude ../transform.m4.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* acinclude.m4 (GDB_GUILE_PROGRAM_NAMES): Pass guile version as
last parameter to pkg-config, not first.
* configure.ac: Pass --with-guile provided pkg-config path to
GDB_GUILE_PROGRAM_NAMES.
* configure: Regenerate.
Directories that don't use libtool need to add -ldl (on most *nix
hosts) to provide dlopen for libbfd.
config/
* plugins.m4 (AC_PLUGINS): If plugins are enabled, add -ldl to
LIBS via AC_SEARCH_LIBS.
gdb/
* acinclude.m4 (GDB_AC_CHECK_BFD): Don't add -ldl.
* config.in: Regenerate.
sim/ppc/
* configure.ac: Invoke AC_PLUGINS.
* config.in: Regenerate.
and regen lots of configure files.
* acinclude.m4 (GDB_GUILE_PROGRAM_NAMES): New macro.
(GDB_GUILD_TARGET_FLAG, GDB_TRY_GUILD): New macros.
* configure.ac: Try to use guild to compile an scm file, if it fails
then disable guile support.
* configure: Regenerate.
* data-directory/Makefile.in (GUILE_SOURCE_FILES): Renamed from
GUILE_FILE_LIST.
(GUILE_COMPILED_FILES): New variable.
(GUILE_FILES) Update.
(GUILD, GUILD_TARGET_FLAG, GUILD_COMPILE_FLAGS): New variables.
(stamp-guile): Compile scm files.
* guile/guile.c (boot_guile_support): New function.
(standard_throw_args_p): New function.
(print_standard_throw_error, print_throw_error): New functions.
(handle_boot_error): New function.
(initialize_scheme_side): Rewrite to call boot_guile_support.
* guile/lib/gdb/boot.scm: Update %load-compiled-path. Load gdb.go.
* guile/lib/gdb/init.scm (%silence-compiler-warnings%): New function.
It has bothered me for a while that files in common/ use macros
defined via autoconf checks, but rely on each configure.ac doing the
proper checks independently.
This patch introduces common/common.m4 which consolidates the checks
assumed by code in common.
The rule I propose is that if something is needed or used by common,
it should be checked for by common.m4. However, if the check is also
needed by gdb or gdbserver, then it should be duplicated there.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 18 (though this is hardly the
most strenuous case) and using the Fedora 18 mingw cross compilers. I
also examined the config.in diffs to ensure that symbols did not go
missing.
2013-11-08 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* acinclude.m4: Include common.m4.
* common/common.m4: New file.
* configure, config.in: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Use GDB_AC_COMMON.
2013-11-08 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* acinclude.m4: Include common.m4, codeset.m4.
* configure, config.in: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Use GDB_AC_COMMON.
This factors --enable-libmcheck related bits from GDB's configure.ac
and makes GDBserver use them too. Specifically, the 'development'
global is moved to a separate script to it can be sourced by both GDB
and GDBserver, and the --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck bits
proper are moved to a new m4 file.
I started out by defining 'development' in the m4 file, but in the end
decided against it, as a separate script has the advantage that
changing it in release branches does not require regenerating
configure, unlike today.
I had also started out by making the new GDB_AC_LIBMCHECK itself
handle the yes/no default fallback depending on release/developement,
but since I had split out 'development' to a separate script, and, GDB
needs the python checks anyway (hence we'd need to do the python
checks in gdb's configure.ac, and pass in a 'default lmcheck yes/no'
parameter to GDB_AC_LIBMCHECK anyway), I ended up keeping
GDB_AC_LIBMCHECK isolated from the 'development' global. IOW, it's
the caller's business to handle it.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17. Built GDB and GDBserver with and without
--enable-libmcheck, and observed --enable-libmcheck overrides the
disablement of -lmcheck caused by python supporting threads, and that
GDBserver links with -lmcheck when expected. Also observed that
changing the 'development' global, and issuing "make" triggers a
relink, and '-lmcheck' is included or not from the link accordingly.
gdb/
2013-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in (config.status): Depend on development.sh.
(aclocal_m4_deps): Add libmcheck.m4.
* acinclude.m4: Include libmcheck.m4.
* configure.ac: Source development.sh instead of setting
'development' here. --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck code
factored out to GDB_AC_LIBMCHECK. Run it.
* development.sh: New file.
* libmcheck.m4: New file.
* configure: Regenerate.
gdb/gdbserver/
2013-07-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* Makefile.in (config.status): Depend on development.sh.
* acinclude.m4: Include libmcheck.m4.
* configure: Regenerate.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
Update some files in GDB that were accidently left with a GPL v2
copyright header.
Update some files where the copyright notice still provides the
old contact info, using the approach for providing the FSF's contact
info.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* acinclude.m4: Update contact info in copyright notice.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* refcard.tex: Update copyright notice to GPL v3 or later.
Update contact info.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* dg-extract-results.sh: Update contact info in copyright notice.
* gdb.arch/mips-octeon-bbit.exp: Update copyright notice to
GPL v3 or later. Update contact info.
* gdb.fortran/logical.f90, gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork-child.c,
gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork-mt.c,
gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork-parent.c,
gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork-st.c,
gdb.threads/watchpoint-fork.h: Likewise.
* acinclude.m4 (GDB_AC_DEFINE_RELOCATABLE): New function.
(GDB_AC_WITH_DIR): Call it.
* configure.ac: Define WITH_PYTHON_PATH if we can find the
python installation directory.
* config.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Regenerate.
* defs.h (python_libdir): Declare.
* main.c (python_libdir): Define.
(captured_main): Initialize python_libdir.
* python/python.c (_initialize_python): #ifdef WITH_PYTHON_PATH,
call Py_SetProgramName to make sure python can find its libraries
and modules.
standard Tcl configury bits.
Remove all Tcl, Tk, Itcl, Itk, etc definitions.
* configure.ac: Don't check if ../itcl exists when building
gdbtk. It could be installed.
Rewrite gdbtk configury to allow for using system-supplied
Tcl and Tk. Gdbtk no longer requires build-time access to
itcl and itk.
* Makefile.in: Remove everything related to itcl and itk.
Rewrite the Tcl bits for gdbtk to correspond to rewrite of
configure.ac.
Remove v850ice.o build rule.
(ALL_TCL_CFLAGS): New convenience defintion. Change all
gdbtk sources to use it.
* configure: Regenerate.
(gdb_stdint_h, gdb_stdint.h, stamp-int): Delete. Remove
all dependencies on $(gdb_stdint_h).
(distclean): Do not delete gdb_stdint.h.
* acinclude.m4: Do not use stdint.m4.
* configure.ac: Set GNULIB_STDINT_H. Remove tests for stdint.h,
uintptr_t, and gdb_stdint.h.
* defs.h: Include <stdint.h>.
* gdb_thread_db.h: Assume stdint.h is already included.
* breakpoint.c, findcmd.c, hppa-tdep.c, inf-ptrace.c, proc-service.c,
rs6000-nat.c, spu-linux-nat.c, target.c, win32-nat.c: Do not
include gdb_stdint.h.
* configure, config.in: Regenerate.
2003-01-23 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Add support for executables whose debug info has been separated
out into a separate file, leaving only a link behind.
* objfiles.h (struct objfile): New fields: separate_debug_objfile
and separate_debug_objfile_backlink.
(put_objfile_before): New declaration.
* symfile.c: #include "filenames.h".
(symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets): If this objfile has its
debug info in a separate file, read that, too. Save the addrs
argument, so we can use it again to read the separated debug info;
syms_from_objfile modifies the table we pass it.
(reread_symbols): After re-reading an objfile, call
reread_separate_symbols to refresh its separate debug info
objfile, if it has one.
(reread_separate_symbols, find_separate_debug_file,
get_debug_link_info, separate_debug_file_exists): New functions.
(debug_file_directory): New global var.
(_initialize_symfile): Initialize debug_file_directory, and
provide the new `set debug-file-directory' command to let the user
change it.
* objfiles.c (free_objfile): If this objfile has its debug info in
a separate objfile, free that one too. If this is itself a
separate debug info objfile, clear our parent's backlink.
(put_objfile_before): New function.
* utils.c (gnu_debuglink_crc32): New function.
* defs.h (gnu_debuglink_crc32): New declaration.
* Makefile.in (symfile.o): Note dependency on "filenames.h".
* configure.in: Handle --with-separate-debug-dir config option.
* acinclude.m4 (AC_DEFINE_DIR): New macro.
* acconfig.h (DEBUGDIR): New macro.
* configure, aclocal.m4, config.in: Regenerated.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2003-01-23 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Separate Debug Files): New section.
AC_CHECK_FUNCS and remove the old check for pread64.
* acinclude.m4 (AC_GNU_SOURCE): New macro.
* acconfig.h (_GNU_SOURCE): Add.
(HAVE_PREAD64): Remove.
* configure, aclocal.m4, config.in: Regenerated.
H.J. Lu