[Buildroot] [PATCH] gdb: add fix for gdb 7.12 and gdb 8.0 build on noMMU platforms

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 03-08-17 09:15, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> This adds a patch to gdb 7.12 and gdb 8.x, which fixes the build on
> noMMU platforms. It is not needed for older versions of gdb, since
> it's related to the switch of gdb to C++ in the 7.12 release.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
> ../nat/linux-ptrace.c: In function 'int linux_fork_to_function(gdb_byte*, int (*)(void*))':
> ../nat/linux-ptrace.c:273:29: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'gdb_byte* {aka unsigned char*}' [-fpermissive]
>        child_stack = xmalloc (STACK_SIZE * 4);
> 
> The patch has already been merged upstream, as of commit
> ffce45d2243e5f52f411e314fc4e1a69f431a81f, and will therefore be part
> of future gdb releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

 Since this is an upstream patch, and the additional issue reported by Romain is
something different, I applied to master, thanks.

 BTW, in another thread Thomas P. requested that a build fix which doesn't have
an accompanying autobuild failure should have a defconfig to reproduce :-).

 Regards,
 Arnout

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