From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: complain about re-declared functions with different modifiers
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 16:36:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515133617.GF2078@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200514205604.f4uxvv7lf4wrg4un@ltop.local>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-14 14:04 complain about re-declared functions with different modifiers Dan Carpenter
2020-05-14 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-14 20:56 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-05-14 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-15 16:18 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-05-15 17:03 ` Derek M Jones
2020-05-15 13:36 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-05-15 16:11 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-05-17 4:56 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-05-18 14:42 ` Dan Carpenter
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