Re: [Tinycc-devel] Symbol collision for function error

[Andrea Fazzi]

Excerpts from grischka's message of mer lug 08 12:19:02 +0200 2009:
> Andrea Fazzi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I wonder if is planned a fix for the issue described in the first 
> > part of the post below:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2007-04/msg00007.html
> > 
> > I'm developing a ruby binding for libtcc and I've got the same issue with 
> > the "error" symbol. Fixing the Makefile as indicated in the post solves the 
> > problem.
> > 
> > Why that patch is not in the mob branch? Is a glibc problem?
> 
> The patch is just a quick hack. If at all we could rename error
> to tcc_error all over the source code.  Nut I'm not quite sure
> that libc should have a symbol called "error".
> 
> And what is the problem exactly?  Does TCC use the wrong "error"
> or does something else use tcc's error?  Also there should be a
> warning AFAIK, with duplicate symbols in libraries.

Unfortunately, at the moment I'm not able to reproduce the error in a C 
program. Consider I'm interfacing to libtcc through an FFI layer[1][2], if 
this can help. BTW, it seems that TCC is using the wrong error function. 
When I try to compile wrong C code like this:

void boom() { boom

I get weird error messages on stderr:

ruby: �C���ם�: Bad font file format

Now, I guess that the expected error message should be:

<string>:1: error: 'boom' undeclared

It's worth noting that looking at the two messages we can recognize the 
pattern %s:%d:%s ...

[1] - http://github.com/remogatto/ffi-tcc
[2] - http://kenai.com/projects/ruby-ffi

Thanks in advance.
Andrea
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