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unnecessary multiple definition error on link using 3.03

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Feb 18 10:33:00 GMT 2002 
GCC 3.0.3 is more likely to emit calls to builtin memory functions;
perhaps memcpy is in that first module?

Try the -Map option to ld (-Wl,-Map from GCC).  That will tell you why
each given module is being pulled in.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:56:33AM -0500, Ken Faiczak wrote:
> I am getting the following errors on link
> (gcc 3.03, ld 2.11.2)
> 
> The same thing worked fine on 2.95....
> 
> *****
> libeverything.a(mem.o): In function `malloc':
> mem.o(.text+0xb70): multiple definition of `malloc'
> libmem.a(misc.o)(.text+0x208): first defined here
> 
> libeverything.a(mem.o): In function `free':
> mem.o(.text+0xba0): multiple definition of `free'
> libmem.a(misc.o)(.text+0x428): first defined here
> *****
> 
> I have a debug library libmem.a
> which contains malloc(), free() etc...
> in several .o files
> 
> it is also in the main library libeverything.a 
> in a single .o file (mem.o)
> 
> When I want to use the debug version I used to
> (2.95) just added my libmem.a before libeverything.a
> and it would ignore the multiple definitions since everything
> was satisfied by the earlier .a file, and there were no unresolved
> symbols requiring anything from mem.o
> 
> Q: Is this a bug in the latest binutils?
> Q: How do I get rid of this new behaviour
>    without pulling mem.o out of libeverything.a?
> 
> 
> ken
> kfaiczak@sandvine.com
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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