I have a program where both my main.c and program.c files use the program.h
file. So I #include "program.h" in both the .c files. The program.h file
has
#ifndef PROGRAM_H
#define PROGRAM_H
....
#endif
Yet when I build my program, the DJGPP compiler tells me there are multiple
definitions of each of my functions.
Any ideas as to what I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
John
Nov 14 '05
25 4907
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:20:11 -0600, "John Hanley"
<jd******@telus planet.net> wrote: I was in no way being rude in asking any questions and I appreciated all the responses I've received as I realize people take time to try and help. You, however, were rude. You could've been polite about it, but you weren't. I guess that's your choice...
I had to look up the message ID to see who you were responding to,
since you didn't provide attributions. As it turns out, I couldn't
tell by the threading because I have ERT permanently killfiled. Ignore
him. Most everyone else does.
--
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Balmer Consulting re************* ***********@att .net
"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote: John Hanley wrote:
.... snipped ... Stop being such a twit!
.... snip ... Otherwise, stop bothering us.
Ignore Trollsdale. Its primary purpose is to annoy and give
misinformation. It is a well known troll around here.
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Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
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"John Hanley" <jd******@telus planet.net> writes: No it isn't exactly what you did.
Then perhaps you can point out what I did wrong. What I did was declare my functions, global variables and structs in the .h file. I then #included them in my .c files as you have done in the example program.
We can't point out what you did wrong without knowing exactly what you
did. Sometimes we can figure out the problem from a brief
description; in this case, we can't.
I suspect the problem is in some detail that you're not telling us,
perhaps because you've assumed it's not significant. That's
understandable; if you were knowledgeable enough to know exactly
what's significant and what isn't, you probably wouldn't have to come
to us for help. Since you are coming to us for help, you really
should give us the information we're asking for. We need a verbatim
cut-and-paste *brief* example of the C code that's causing the
problem. Without that, we can't help you.
[...] Do as Keith Thompson asked:
"Try narrowing your program down to a set of very small files (say 10-20 lines each) that still exhibits the problem."
That's fine. I was only replying to your email as you emailed me.
[...]
This is Usenet, not email. The difference is significant; though your
remarks here might be aimed at one person, there are many more
listening in.
As for the problem you're actually asking about, we've now explained
several times what you need to tell us before we can help you. Your
description, quoted above, is not enough. ERT was unnecesarily rude
in my opinion, but he's absolutely right about at least one thing: we
can't read your mind.
You can continue describing what you're doing, and we can continue
telling you we don't know what the problem is. Or you can show us
what you're doing, and we can probably help. The choice is yours (but
one of the choices would be a collosal waste of time and, well, rude.)
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
John Hanley wrote: You, however, were rude. You could've been polite about it, but you weren't.
I didn't mean to be rude.
I was trying to get your attention.
We can't help you unless you do as Keith suggested.
Alan Balmer wrote: John Hanley wrote:
I had to look up the message ID to see who you were responding to, since you didn't provide attributions. As it turns out, I couldn't tell by the threading because I have ERT permanently killfiled.
And I'm grateful for that.
Ignore him. Most everyone else does.
Do you intend to help John Hanley with the problem that he describes?
>> > cat program.h #ifndef GUARD_PROGRAM_H #define GUARD_PROGRAM_H 1 #include <stdio.h> void my_function(voi d); // declaration #endif//GUARD_PROGRAM_H
> cat program.c #include "program.h"
void my_function(voi d) {// definition fprintf(stdout, "Hello from my_function(voi d)!\n"); }
> cat main.c #include <stdlib.h> #include "program.h"
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { my_function(); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
> gcc -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -o main main.c program.c
This exactly what I did. But in Rhide, it tells me "multple definitions of _function",
There are no references to _function in any of the code above.
What, EXACTLY, did the message say?
and at the command line it tells me "undefined reference to _function".
Again, there are no references to _function in any of the code above.
WHERE did it say this reference was?
Yet what you have above is just how I set it up. I am unsure why it is doing that. Any other ideas?
Gordon L. Burditt
In article <10************ **@proxy2.srv.u alberta.ca>,
John Hanley <jd******@telus planet.net> wrote: This exactly what I did. But in Rhide, it tells me "multple definitions of _function", and at the command line it tells me "undefined reference to _function".
Are you *absolutely sure* that you only have prototypes in the .h file,
and not definitions? Please post the declaration of "function" from your
..h file.
-- Richard
"Keith Thompson" <ks***@mib.or g> wrote in message
news:ln******** ****@nuthaus.mi b.org... "John Hanley" <jd******@telus planet.net> writes: No it isn't exactly what you did. Then perhaps you can point out what I did wrong. What I did was declare
my functions, global variables and structs in the .h file. I then
#included them in my .c files as you have done in the example program.
We can't point out what you did wrong without knowing exactly what you did. Sometimes we can figure out the problem from a brief description; in this case, we can't.
I suspect the problem is in some detail that you're not telling us, perhaps because you've assumed it's not significant. That's understandable; if you were knowledgeable enough to know exactly what's significant and what isn't, you probably wouldn't have to come to us for help. Since you are coming to us for help, you really should give us the information we're asking for. We need a verbatim cut-and-paste *brief* example of the C code that's causing the problem. Without that, we can't help you.
Sounds good. I'll post that at the bottom of this reply. [...] Do as Keith Thompson asked:
"Try narrowing your program down to a set of very small files (say 10-20 lines each) that still exhibits the problem." That's fine. I was only replying to your email as you emailed me. [...]
This is Usenet, not email. The difference is significant; though your remarks here might be aimed at one person, there are many more listening in.
True. I actually was replying to an email. Mr. Tisdale had replied to my
post
over email and cc'd the newsgroup. I did a reply all and replied to both.
I
should've realized it probably shouldn't have gone to the newsgroup as well
(being more
of a personal reply). My apologies for breaking any Usenet etiquette.
You can continue describing what you're doing, and we can continue telling you we don't know what the problem is. Or you can show us what you're doing, and we can probably help. The choice is yours (but one of the choices would be a collosal waste of time and, well, rude.)
Ok, here's my header file r_climat.h
struct data_record
{
...
};
struct data_list
{
struct data_record * head;
struct data_record * tail;
};
struct parameter_list
{
...
}parameters;
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <time.h>
/* Global variables */
extern int FORMAT_TYPE;
extern char PARAM_FILE[256];
extern char * IN_FILE;
extern char OUT_FILE[13];
extern void init(struct data_list * l);
extern struct data_record * new_node(long int sid, long int date, int year,
int month, int element, long int val[96], char f[32]);
extern void add_to_tail(str uct data_list * l, long int sid, long int date,
int year, int month, int element, long int val[96], char f[32]);
extern int remove_record(s truct data_list * ls, struct data_record * rec);
extern void get_filename(ch ar * filename, char * outname);
extern int validate_format (char * f);
extern void print_list(stru ct data_list * dl);
extern int format_HLY(char * f);
extern int f_eat_spaces(FI LE * f);
extern int get_parameters( );
extern void empty_list(stru ct data_list * d);
extern int get_number_of_d ays(struct data_record * d);
extern int to_CSV_DLY(char * filename, struct data_list * list);
extern int format_DLY(char * f, struct data_list * dl);
extern int format_MLY(char * f);
extern int format_FIF(char * f);
I tried with and without the #ifndef/#define/#endif and as well with and
without the extern on the functions.
I was able to figure out what was wrong with the undefined references to my
global variables. I declared them here, but not in my .c file. So I don't
have that error anymore.
As for my "multiple declaration" problem, here's the snippet of my .c files:
main.c
#include "r_climat.h "
#define HLY 0
#define DLY 1
#define MLY 2
#define FIF 3
int FORMAT_TYPE;
char PARAM_FILE[256];
char * IN_FILE;
char OUT_FILE[13];
int main(int argv, char * argc[])
{
main program here
}
and here's r_climat.c
#include "r_climat.h "
#define HLY 0
#define DLY 1
#define MLY 2
#define FIF 3
/* initialize head and tail of data_list to NULL */
void init(struct data_list * l)
{
l->head=NULL;
l->tail=NULL;
}
and the rest of my functions that would take another 800 lines or so.
I only define them in my r_climat.c (I know I don't define any in main.c)
and I only prototype them
in r_climat.h. They all compile just fine with no errors or warnings. It
is during linking that I get this
"multiple definitions" error.
Let me know if there is anything else specific you would like.
Thanks again for all your help. I really do appreciate all of it.
Best regards,
John
to get an accurate answer, please post your entire source code.
chok
John Hanley wrote: I have a program where both my main.c and program.c files use the program.h file. So I #include "program.h" in both the .c files. The program.h file has #ifndef PROGRAM_H #define PROGRAM_H ... #endif
Yet when I build my program, the DJGPP compiler tells me there are multiple definitions of each of my functions.
Any ideas as to what I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
John
Ok, it seems my code wasn't what was buggy. I am using the RHIDE ide for
djgpp. When I built it at the command line just now it didn't give me
errors. I think what I did was when I created my "project" in RHIDE, I
added my files including my .h file. I just removed my .h file from the
project and it didn't give me any errors in RHIDE.
Sorry for taking up all this time on such a small oversight. I really do
appreciate the replies and all the help.
Thanks so much!
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