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

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Dario,

On 30/03/2020 11:58, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 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. :-)
I have just posted the patches [1]. This was compiled with OCaml 4.10.x 
and -safe-string. Let me know if it fixes everything on your side.
Cheers,

[1] <20200330192157.1335-1-julien@xxxxxxx>

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Julien Grall