2012-04-05 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

	-Werror=strict-aliasing

	* spu-low.c (parse_spufs_run): Avoid dereferencing type-punned
	pointer.

diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
index 47d13537c87223c00ed975edd6b333a04377246f..25d9cb34485fd483753819ac17db2e6fc64a3827 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-04-05  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
+
+       -Werror=strict-aliasing
+
+       * spu-low.c (parse_spufs_run): Avoid dereferencing type-punned
+       pointer.
+
 2012-04-04  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
 
        * linux-sparc-low.c (sparc_fill_gregset_to_stack)

diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/spu-low.c b/gdb/gdbserver/spu-low.c
index 2a720ae252c986e770f7dc5f4b196ac36c752614..1ecd60ccc5d4547c7aa9126ee4d6e9fa5de45356 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/gdbserver/spu-low.c
+++ b/gdb/gdbserver/spu-low.c
@@ -206,14 +206,14 @@ store_ppc_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, char *myaddr, int len)
 static int
 parse_spufs_run (int *fd, CORE_ADDR *addr)
 {
-  char buf[4];
+  unsigned int insn;
   CORE_ADDR pc = fetch_ppc_register (32);  /* nip */
 
   /* Fetch instruction preceding current NIP.  */
-  if (fetch_ppc_memory (pc-4, buf, 4) != 0)
+  if (fetch_ppc_memory (pc-4, (char *) &insn, 4) != 0)
     return 0;
   /* It should be a "sc" instruction.  */
-  if (*(unsigned int *)buf != INSTR_SC)
+  if (insn != INSTR_SC)
     return 0;
   /* System call number should be NR_spu_run.  */
   if (fetch_ppc_register (0) != NR_spu_run)