I tried building GDB on GNU/Hurd, and ran into this warning:
gdbsupport/scoped_ignore_signal.h:78:16: error: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Werror=nonnull]
This is because in this commit:
commit 99624310dd82542c389c89c2e55d8cae36bb74e1
Date: Sun Jun 27 15:13:14 2021 -0400
gdb: fall back on sigpending + sigwait if sigtimedwait is not available
A call to sigwait was introduced that passes nullptr as the second
argument, this call is only reached if sigtimedwait is not supported.
The original patch was written for macOS, I assume on that target
passing nullptr as the second argument is fine.
On my GNU/Linux box, the man-page for sigwait doesn't mention that
nullptr is allowed for the second argument, so my assumption would be
that nullptr is not OK, and, if I change the '#ifdef
HAVE_SIGTIMEDWAIT' introduced by the above patch to '#if 0', and
rebuild on GNU/Linux, I see the same warning that I see on GNU/Hurd.
I propose that we stop passing nullptr as the second argument to
sigwait, and instead pass a valid int pointer. The value returned in
the int can then be used in an assert.
For testing, I (locally) made the change to the #ifdef I mentioned
above, compiled GDB, and ran the usual tests, this meant I was using
sigwait instead on sigtimedwait on GNU/Linux, I saw no regressions.
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