Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:04:30 -0400
To: Sourceware Mail List <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: ahare AT btinternet DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems building GDB and Insight-GDB under latest net release
Message-ID: <20000610160430.A1373@cygnus.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: Sourceware Mail List <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
	ahare AT btinternet DOT com
References: <087f01bfd316$5e05c180$0100000a AT dualbeast>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i
In-Reply-To: <087f01bfd316$5e05c180$0100000a@dualbeast>; from ahare@btinternet.com on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:58:47PM +0100

On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:58:47PM +0100, Andy Hare wrote:
>This occurs in both Insight and GDB. I have looked at the code in question
>and found that the definitions in string.h differ to the definitions in
>strsignal.c. In strsignal.c the function strsignal is defined as a const
>char * but the string.h shows it as a char *. Modifying string.h to const
>char * now allows the stuff to compile. My problem is, should the mods be
>done in string.h or should strstring.c be changed, and thus who needs to
>know of the problem, here or in the GDB lists ?
>
>The code changes for string.h are shown below
>
>Lines 68-73
>>char *_EXFUN(strupr,(char *));
>>#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
>>const char    *_EXFUN(strsignal, (int __signo));
>>int     _EXFUN(strtosigno, (const char *__name));
>>#endif
>>void  _EXFUN(swab,(const void *, void *, ssize_t));

This is already a "const" in sourceware version of newlib, from whence
this file comes, and in the newest cygwin DLL net release.

cgf

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com