Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ru Igarashi <[email protected]> · Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:25:09 -0600

I was compiling the synApps areaDetector on Cygwin 1.7 under
base 3.14.12.2 using the system libs for netCDF and HDF5 for
fun, but ran into a linker error, complaining that the symbol
"_function" was multiply defined, once in registryIoc.lib and
once in libnetcdf.a.  I tracked the EPICS symbol down to the
"const char *function" variable in BASE/src/registry/registryFunction.c: 

const char *function = "function";
static void *registryID = (void *)&function;

Seeing as neither symbols seem to be used outside of that file,
I prepended "static" to the declaration of "*function", recompiled
EPICS, and recompiled areaDetector successfully.  I've only tested
the new base with softIoc, and areaDetector not at all, so by no
means have I adequately tested this hack.  I cannot find any
mention of this particular hack in TechTalk or base Release Notes
or base Known Problems.

Instead, I thought I should ask, is this hack safe (or otherwise
appropriate)?

ru

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Ru Igarashi                    Software & Instrumentation Specialist
e-mail: [email protected]   Canadian Light Source
ph:306 657 3751                University of Saskatchewan
fax: 306 657 3535              Saskatoon SK S7N 0X4

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System