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        linux 1.3.84
        gcc 2.7.2
        binutils 2.6.0.12
        libc 5.3.9

I am getting unresolved symbols:

        __constant_c_and_count_memset
        __memset_generic

when linking pppd. chat compiles with no problem.

These symbols are defined in /usr/include/asm/string.h and are
declared as inline.

Why is the compiler bombing? I wrote a simple program using
memset to clear a buffer and everything linked fine. The base
include for both appears to be /usr/include/memory.h

Thanks!
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Gordon Edwards

http://www.mindspring.com/~gse

   I am trying to compile PPP 2.2.0e with:

           linux 1.3.84
           gcc 2.7.2
           binutils 2.6.0.12
           libc 5.3.9

   I am getting unresolved symbols:

           __constant_c_and_count_memset
           __memset_generic

   when linking pppd. chat compiles with no problem.

   These symbols are defined in /usr/include/asm/string.h and are
   declared as inline.

   Why is the compiler bombing? I wrote a simple program using
   memset to clear a buffer and everything linked fine. The base
   include for both appears to be /usr/include/memory.h

Yes, this is weird. Something to do with the "extern inline" (what's
the logic of that, anyway??), I suspect. I forced it to compile by
changing that to "static inline" (in the output of gcc -E, not the
orig. include file) and fixing the ensuing unresolved ___strtok
problem. Compile -O2 also works, I think. Haven't tried with gcc 2.7.0
yet, but looks like a compiler bug to me...
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   orig. include file) and fixing the ensuing unresolved ___strtok
   problem.

Which, I'd better add, you fix with a

char * ___strtok;

at any suitable place in the code.
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   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N  
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918

From what I have seen, and how I fixed this problem is to go
to asm/string.h and put an ifdef __KERNEL__ to skip the header
file contents if I am not building the kernel.

I don't know if the define is missing in the source tree, but
the problem stems from on going development in both ppp and
the kernel.

Congratulations. You are paying your dues for living on the
(b)leading edge ;-)

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Cheers....

Thomas Tempero                          Design Acceleration, Inc

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                                        Rochester, MN

   I don't believe this is a compiler bug.

Hmm. It certainly looks like one to me, but let wiser people
judge. (Linker refuses to resolve functions that were actually defined
in the source file itself?)

   From what I have seen, and how I fixed this problem is to go
   to asm/string.h and put an ifdef __KERNEL__ to skip the header
   file contents if I am not building the kernel.

Effective, obviously. But then you'll miss all the hard optimization
in your C programs, won't you?

   Congratulations. You are paying your dues for living on the
   (b)leading edge ;-)

Hrmpf! Actually, I was just trying to do a long overdue move towards
ELF, but then I had to...., and then I had to..., and then..., and
then...

And then I ordered the CD-ROM.
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   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N  
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918