On fedora rawhide, when running test-case gdb.base/ctf-ptype.exp, I get:
...
gdb compile failed, ctf-ptype.c: In function 'main':
ctf-ptype.c:242:29: error: implicit declaration of function 'malloc' \
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
242 | v_char_pointer = (char *) malloc (1);
| ^~~~~~
ctf-ptype.c:1:1: note: include '<stdlib.h>' or provide a declaration of 'malloc'
+++ |+#include <stdlib.h>
1 | /* This test program is part of GDB, the GNU debugger.
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Fix this by adding the missing include.
Tested on aarch64-linux.
* First the basic C types.
*/
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
#if !defined (__STDC__) && !defined (_AIX)
#define signed /**/
#endif
int main ()
{
- /* Ensure that malloc is a pointer type; avoid use of "void" and any include files. */
-/* extern char *malloc();*/
-
/* Some of the tests in ptype.exp require invoking malloc, so make
sure it is linked in to this program. */
v_char_pointer = (char *) malloc (1);