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
