GCC accepts that a function is defined several times under the same name, provided it is static inline. It seems to rely on the assembler to check this kind of issues.
Environment: System: Linux nostromo 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 15:57:25 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 host: i486-pc-linux-gnu build: i486-pc-linux-gnu target: i486-pc-linux-gnu configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --disable-werror --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu How-To-Repeat: The following compiles fine. static inline int one () { return 1; } static inline int one () { return 2; } int main () { return one (); } ------- Comment #1 from akim at lrde dot epita dot fr 2005-11-03 15:28 ------- Fix: No idea. -- Summary: Multiple static inline functions accepted Product: gcc Version: 4.0.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: akim at lrde dot epita dot fr GCC build triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24656