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Avoid invalid pointer to pointer conversions.
authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:22:20 +0000 (12:22 +0000)
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:22:20 +0000 (12:22 +0000)
commit39086a0e1346572fac07542ede2a1ef153308a2a
tree55287581f85b93530d40c06578f98c07ba535cac
parent905851752e89f4fa2cc13e6df0f2dbd22c82f623
Avoid invalid pointer to pointer conversions.

Casts between 'char **' <-> 'unsigned char **' and 'char **' <-> const
char **' are actually invalid:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2013-03/msg00118.html

In a nutshell, char (and variants) can alias anything, but pointers to
chars get no special treatment (cf. C99/N1256, 6.5/7).

Turns out older gcc's actually warn/complain on these constructs,
though newer one's don't:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-03/msg00429.html
  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-03/msg00430.html

This patch fixes the cases I added last week.  It also fixes one other
preexisting case in charset.c, though it seems even older gccs don't
complain of char * <-> const char * aliasing.

Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17.

gdb/
2013-03-11  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

* charset.c (convert_between_encodings): Don't cast between
different pointer to pointer types.  Instead, make the 'inp' local
be of the type iconv expects.
(wchar_iterate): Don't cast between different pointer to pointer
types.  Instead, use new pointer local of the type iconv expects.
* target.c (target_read_stralloc, target_fileio_read_stralloc):
Add new local of type char pointer, and use it to get a
char/string view of the byte buffer, instead of casting between
pointer to pointer types.
gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/charset.c
gdb/target.c