Re: [Xen-devel] Tools build failure with gcc-9.2.1

[Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 18:19 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 25/03/2020 09:40, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > /usr/include/string.h:43:14: note: expected 'void * restrict' but
> > argument is of type 'const char *'
> >     43 | extern void *memcpy (void *__restrict __dest, const void
> > *__restrict __src,
> >        |              ^~~~~~
> > 
> > When building with:
> > 
> > gcc version 9.2.1 20200306 [revision
> > c5edde44f5b17b4891f17a63517f355bbf89e7d3] (SUSE Linux)
> > 
> > Already known and being dealt with?
> 
> I suspect you have a new version of Ocaml built with -safe-string as
> per 
> [1], String_Val() will return (const char *) rather than (char *).
> 
Yep, I checked in the ocaml headers installed on the system, and that's
exactly the case.

> I am looking at writing a patch for it and send it to xen-devel.
> 
Cool, thanks! I'll be happy to test it. :-)

Regards
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Dario Faggioli, Ph.D
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