Problem compiling gdb/symtab.c in GDB 6.7.1 using GCC 4.3.0 on Solaris 10

[Jonathan Leffler]

I'm not clear whether this is a problem in GCC or in GDB, so I'm asking both teams.

Compiling gdb 6.7.1 on Solaris 10 using the newly installed GCC 4.3.0, I got a compilation error (because of the -Werror option) as shown:

gcc -c -g -O2    -I. -I.././gdb -I.././gdb/config -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/gdb/v6.7.1/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.././gdb/../include/opcode -I.././gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd -I.././gdb/../bfd -I.././gdb/../include -I./../intl  -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1  -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wpointer-arith -Wformat-nonliteral -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused -Wno-switch -Wno-char-subscripts -Werror symtab.c

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
symtab.c: In function 'find_line_symtab':
symtab.c:2252: error: 'exact' may be used uninitialized in this function
make: *** [symtab.o] Error 1

The fragment in question was 'worked around' by adding the '= 0' to the declaration of 'exact' at:

struct symtab *
find_line_symtab (struct symtab *symtab, int line, int *index, int *exact_match)
{
  int exact = 0;

  /* BEST_INDEX and BEST_LINETABLE identify the smallest linenumber > LINE
     so far seen.  */

  int best_index;
  struct linetable *best_linetable;
  struct symtab *best_symtab;

  /* First try looking it up in the given symtab.  */
  best_linetable = LINETABLE (symtab);

  best_symtab = symtab;
  best_index = find_line_common (best_linetable, line, &exact);
  if (best_index < 0 || !exact)
    {


It is not clear to me that GCC is entitled to complain.  However, given that it does, the workaround at least allows the compilation to proceed.

The configure script for GDB was run as:

./configure --prefix=/usr/gdb/v6.7.1

The configure script for GCC was run as:

../gcc-4.3.0/configure --prefix=/usr/gcc/v4.3.0 --with-mpfr=/usr/gnu --with-gmp=/usr/gnu

I don't suppose it matters, but the version of MPFR was 2.3.1, compiled using GCC 4.2.3,
and the version of GMP was 4.1.2, which I apparently compiled a long time ago with GCC 3.3.2.

The platform information from the GCC config.log is:

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = black
uname -m = sun4u
uname -r = 5.10
uname -s = SunOS
uname -v = Generic_120011-14

/usr/bin/uname -p = sparc
/bin/uname -X     = System = SunOS
Node = black
Release = 5.10
KernelID = Generic_120011-14
Machine = sun4u
BusType = <unknown>
Serial = <unknown>
Users = <unknown>
OEM# = 0
Origin# = 1
NumCPU = 4

/bin/arch              = sun4
/usr/bin/arch -k       = sun4u
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown


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