Re: complain about re-declared functions with different modifiers

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> Not sure if it's related to Dan's problem or not but with the
> following code:
> 
> 	static inline int foo(void)
> 	{
> 		return 1;
> 	}
> 	
> 	extern int foo(void);
> 	
> 	int dummy(void)
> 	{
> 		return foo();
> 	}
> 
> the static definition of foo() and the extern declaration are
> distinct symbols (in the sense that neither has its sym->same_symbol
> pointing to the other). As far as I understand, this is correct
> because they have a different 'scope'. The problem occurs later,
> when doing the lookup in dummy(): which symbol should be returned?

Yeah.  That's it.  When I see the call, I want to parse the statements
so I need the symbol with the implementation.

regards,
dan carpenter