Re: linking gprolog libraries using GCC

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Aug-2002, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I just encountered what might be a related problem--I am linking gprolog 
> in with additional libraries beyond those that 'gplc' uses and one of 
> them ( the Mac OS X Foundation Framework, I think) already has a 
> function named Allocate. I renamed gprolog's Allocate to AllocateGP (and 
> rebuilt) and it all worked. So far.

This should be considered a bug in both GNU Prolog and the Mac OS X
Foundation Framework.  Libraries written in C should prefix all their
names with a (hopefully unique) prefix associated with the library name.

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