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From: sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca (Chris McGee)
Subject: [9fans] Linker and duplicate symbols
Date: Thu,  1 Sep 2016 22:34:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23E1A816-343E-4081-8A46-A7D7AFD91B2F@yahoo.ca> (raw)

Hi All,

I have recently run into a problem when compiling the kernel where the linker complains about duplicate symbols and fails. The symbol is sleep(), which is exported in libc.a but is also exported in another file in port, but with different parameters (both number and type).

It's my understanding that C doesn't support overloading. So, why is it that the kernel links when there are two different sleep functions?

Thanks,
Chris



             reply	other threads:[~2016-09-02  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-02  2:34 Chris McGee [this message]
2016-09-02 10:20 ` Richard Miller
2016-09-02 15:56   ` Chris McGee
2016-09-02 16:11     ` Richard Miller
2016-09-09  0:48       ` Chris McGee
2016-09-09  8:31         ` Richard Miller
2016-09-09 14:55           ` Chris McGee
2016-09-09 16:37             ` Richard Miller
2016-09-02 16:12     ` cinap_lenrek
2016-09-02 20:00       ` Chris McGee
2016-09-02 22:34         ` Steve Simon
2016-09-03 16:58           ` Chris McGee

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