I stumbled on this snippet in nat/gdb_ptrace.h:
/* Some systems, in particular DEC OSF/1, Digital Unix, Compaq Tru64
or whatever it's called these days, don't provide a prototype for
ptrace. Provide one to silence compiler warnings. */
#ifndef HAVE_DECL_PTRACE
extern PTRACE_TYPE_RET ptrace();
#endif
I believe this is unnecessary today and should be removed. First, the
comment only mentions OSes we don't support (and to be honest, I had
never even heard of).
But most importantly, in C++, a declaration with empty parenthesis
declares a function that accepts no arguments, unlike in C. So if this
declaration was really used, GDB wouldn't build, since all ptrace call
sites pass some arguments. Since we haven't heard anything about this
causing some build failures since we have transitioned to C++, I
conclude that it's not used.
This patch removes it as well as the corresponding configure check.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* ptrace.m4: Don't check for ptrace declaration.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* nat/gdb_ptrace.h: Don't declare ptrace if HAVE_DECL_PTRACE is
not defined.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
This moves many needed configure checks from gdb and gdbserver into
common.m4. This helps gdbsupport, nat, and target be self-contained.
The result is a bit spaghetti-ish, because gdbsupport uses another m4
file from gdb/. The resulting code is somewhat non-obvious. However,
these problems already exist, so it's not really that much worse than
what is already done.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* configure: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Move many checks to ../gdbsupport/common.m4.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* configure: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Remove any checks that were added to common.m4.
* acinclude.m4: Include lib-ld.m4, lib-prefix.m4, and
lib-link.m4.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* configure, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, common.m4, config.in:
Rebuild.
* common.m4 (GDB_AC_COMMON): Move many checks from
gdb/configure.ac.
* acinclude.m4: Include bfd.m4, ptrace.m4.
Change-Id: I931eaa94065df268b30a2f1354390710df89c7f8
This patch moves the gdbsupport directory to the top level. This is
the next step in the ongoing project to move gdbserver to the top
level.
The bulk of this patch was created by "git mv gdb/gdbsupport gdbsupport".
This patch then adds a build system to gdbsupport and wires it into
the top level. Then it changes gdb to use the top-level build.
gdbserver, on the other hand, is not yet changed. It still does its
own build of gdbsupport.
ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* src-release.sh (GDB_SUPPORT_DIRS): Add gdbsupport.
* MAINTAINERS: Add gdbsupport.
* configure: Rebuild.
* configure.ac (configdirs): Add gdbsupport.
* gdbsupport: New directory, move from gdb/gdbsupport.
* Makefile.def (host_modules, dependencies): Add gnulib.
* Makefile.in: Rebuild.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* nat/x86-linux-dregs.c: Include configh.h.
* nat/linux-ptrace.c: Include configh.h.
* nat/linux-btrace.c: Include configh.h.
* defs.h: Include config.h, bfd.h.
* configure.ac: Don't source common.host.
(CONFIG_OBS, CONFIG_SRCS): Remove gdbsupport files.
* configure: Rebuild.
* acinclude.m4: Update path.
* Makefile.in (SUPPORT, LIBSUPPORT, INCSUPPORT): New variables.
(CONFIG_SRC_SUBDIR): Remove gdbsupport.
(INTERNAL_CFLAGS_BASE): Add INCSUPPORT.
(CLIBS): Add LIBSUPPORT.
(CDEPS): Likewise.
(COMMON_SFILES): Remove gdbsupport files.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Likewise.
(stamp-version): Update path to create-version.sh.
(ALLDEPFILES): Remove gdbsupport files.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* server.h: Include config.h.
* gdbreplay.c: Include config.h.
* configure: Rebuild.
* configure.ac: Don't source common.host.
* acinclude.m4: Update path.
* Makefile.in (INCSUPPORT): New variable.
(INCLUDE_CFLAGS): Add INCSUPPORT.
(SFILES): Update paths.
(version-generated.c): Update path to create-version.sh.
(gdbsupport/%-ipa.o, gdbsupport/%.o): Update paths.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog
2020-01-14 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* common-defs.h: Add GDBSERVER case. Update includes.
* acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4, config.in, configure, configure.ac,
Makefile.am, Makefile.in, README: New files.
* Moved from ../gdb/gdbsupport/
Change-Id: I07632e7798635c1bab389bf885971e584fb4bb78
