[Buildroot] [PATCH] gdb: add fix for gdb 7.12 and gdb 8.0 build on noMMU platforms

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:25:27 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Fixes:
> > 
> > ../nat/linux-ptrace.c: In function 'int linux_fork_to_function(gdb_byte*, int (*)(void*))':
> > ../nat/linux-ptrace.c:273:29: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'gdb_byte* {aka unsigned char*}' [-fpermissive]
> >        child_stack = xmalloc (STACK_SIZE * 4);
> > 
> > The patch has already been merged upstream, as of commit
> > ffce45d2243e5f52f411e314fc4e1a69f431a81f, and will therefore be part
> > of future gdb releases.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>  
> 
>  Since this is an upstream patch, and the additional issue reported by Romain is
> something different, I applied to master, thanks.
> 
>  BTW, in another thread Thomas P. requested that a build fix which doesn't have
> an accompanying autobuild failure should have a defconfig to reproduce :-).

Right, will do next time. You should have dropped my patch, I could
have done a respin with a defconfig included in the commit log.

Thanks!

Thomas
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