Re: gdb-7.12 powerpc-rtems4.12-gdb does not build on FreeBSD.

On 11/24/2016 12:12 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> The PPC sim shouldn't be calling GDB's "error" directly.  If it does,
> then that's should be fixed.  There's an "error" method in the
> host_callback structure (filled in by GDB) that should be used instead.

I tried reproducing on GNU/Linux here, but it doesn't.  Looks like
"error" ends up resolved to something, most probably glibc's own
"error" function (a GNU extension):

 https://linux.die.net/man/3/error

So on GNU/Linux those sim "error" calls probably crash at run time.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves