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Re: [Bug-gnulib] Symbol collision


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] Symbol collision
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:22:20 +0200
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Hi Simon,

Hello.

>     It occured to me that if some of these functions happen to be included
>     in both libraries, e.g. strdup, won't linking an application to both
>     libraries break?  
>
> Maybe I'm the one who's basically confused, but I was under the
> impression that a given symbol could be defined in fifty libraries, and
> it wouldn't matter.

I actually tried it and you are right.  Forget my message.  I'll soon
start testing gnulib in several real projects that link each other on
many Unix platforms, so if there is a problem like this I'll encounter
them soon.

Btw (to everyone), any progress on adding the mempcpy module?





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