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Re:Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening by makecheck on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:31PM (#25825560)
When two functions with the same name are ‘extern “C”’ for example, the compiler/linker will pick only one of them and which one is undefined. The choice could even change the next time you build. I’m not sure if compilers/linkers warn about this now but they certainly didn’t warn about it back when I first discovered this on a project.

And of course, the outcome ranges from nothing (if both copies happen to be identical), to slightly off (e.g. one dependency had a slightly older version of the function), to downright wrong (e.g. crash in this case).

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