Re: structure redefinition error

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:57:30 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<d632bae8-418f-437d-85b1-b6a57cc49cb8@n18g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>
On 28 Feb., 07:12, dust wrote:

Pls help me solve the compilation error:

In file included from /some/path/to/header1.h:1,
                 from /some/path/to/header2.h:15,
                 from //some/path/to/header3.h:46,
                 from //some/path/to/header4.h:1,
                 from //some/path/to/header5.h:4:
/actual/path/to/header6.h:107: redefinition of `struct vmac_addr'
Exception: error status 1 from /usr/bin/gcc
make: *** [OBJ/sim/object_file.o] Error 1

The compiler is complaining about multiple definition but not saying
where else it has been redeclared/redefined.


If you have defined this type in only one place (header1.h) then the
only explanation would be that you accidentally include this header
more than once into a translation unit (either directly or
indirectly). The solution to this are "include guards".

Also the notable thing is
in the code the structure has been 'typedef' as:

  typedef struct vmac_addr {
    union {
      u_int8_t mbyte[6];
      u_int16_t mword[3];
    } v;
  } vMAC_ADDR;


Keep in mind that union-based "type punning" is a GCC extension.
According to the C++ standard does not define a particular behaviour
in this case.

Cheers!
SG

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