From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>
To: Lorens Kockum <lk-egcs-gen@bigears.solsoft.com>
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Please, a word of help (Was: Re: egcs 1.1.1: apparently multiple library inclusion??)
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990102200527.E557@perlsupport.com>
References: <19981222194228.F3581@bigears.solsoft.fr> <19981229112121.32484.qmail@bigears.solsoft.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00054.html

According to Lorens Kockum:
> >At first, compiling my existing C and C++ code, no problems.
> >Then I spent two days adding in STL lists, compiling the object
> >files as I went, with (finally, at least ;-)) no errors.  (No, I
> >did not forget the make clean...)
> >
> >The first errors that come out of the linker are:
> >% ./display_npl.o: In function `int lexicographical_compare_3way<signed char const *, signed char const *>(signed char const *, signed char const *, signed
> >char const *, signed char const *)':
> >% /usr/include/g++-2/stl_algobase.h(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `operator new(unsigned int, void *)'
> >% ./main.o(.text+0x0):/usr/include/g++-2/stl_algobase.h: first defined here

> >I don't get it.  Does this mean that the offending definitions,
> >the ones that can not be made multiple times, are made and
> >included in each object file?

Yes.  Your EGCS apparently believes that it has a GNU linker to depend
on; GNU ld will omit the duplicate definitions.  It may even be a
generic ELF feature, I don't know.
-- 
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