Problems with socket()

[Christian Helmuth]

Hi Александр,

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 08:31:35PM +0300, Александр Домо wrote:
> I finally got to the root of the problem! In my project source code I  
> found a number of functions named "tcp_xxx", and particularly, tcp_init(),  
> that came into conflict with the ones in the lwip library. When I renamed  
> them, the problem was gone. Now if you could tell me who is right and who  
> is wrong in this case? What is the right way of doing this?

Using the lwIP library you kind of sign a contract to not name your
own API functions like exported functions. We did some mix of
incremental link and making function private with objcopy in past
projects, but I explicitly do not recommend such hacks if avoidable in
any way. A clean interface is the best track.

If I am in doubt which symbol names can be used, I investigate the
libraries with 'nm', prefix my C symbols or (at the best) use a C++
namespace for my own API.

Regards
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