Building current gdb mainline with gcc 7.1 on Solaris 11.4 fails:
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c: In function `void _initialize_sol_thread()':
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c:1229:66: error: invalid conversion from `void (*)(char*, int)' to `void (*)(const char*, int)' [-fpermissive]
_("Show info on Solaris user threads."), &maintenanceinfolist);
^
In file included from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/completer.h:21:0,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/symtab.h:31,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/language.h:26,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/frame.h:72,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/gdbarch.h:39,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/defs.h:557,
from /vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/sol-thread.c:51:
/vol/src/gnu/gdb/gdb/dist/gdb/command.h:140:33: note: initializing argument 3 of `cmd_list_element* add_cmd(const char*, command_class, void (*)(const char*, int), const char*, cmd_list_element**)'
extern struct cmd_list_element *add_cmd (const char *, enum command_class,
^~~~~~~
The following patch allows compilation to succeed on i386-pc-solaris2.11
and sparc-sun-solaris2.11.
* sol-thread.c (info_solthreads): Constify args.
Cast args to void *.
+2017-11-30 Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
+
+ * sol-thread.c (info_solthreads): Constify args.
+ Cast args to void *.
+
2017-11-29 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
* target-float.c [HAVE_LIBMPFR]: Define MPFR_USE_INTMAX_T.
inferior. */
static void
-info_solthreads (char *args, int from_tty)
+info_solthreads (const char *args, int from_tty)
{
- p_td_ta_thr_iter (main_ta, info_cb, args,
+ p_td_ta_thr_iter (main_ta, info_cb, (void *) args,
TD_THR_ANY_STATE, TD_THR_LOWEST_PRIORITY,
TD_SIGNO_MASK, TD_THR_ANY_USER_FLAGS);
}