[sane-devel] Usage of LIBOBJS/ALLOCA in Makefiles

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> writes:

> [snip]
> Second question is this:  I don't think its a good idea to link internal 
> versions of standard functions into the backends.  As I mentioned 
> earlier, its super common for all projects to do this.  If we link in, 
> for example, snprintf into libsane and then if someone else links in 
> libsane along with their own internal snprintf then we will get symbol 
> collisions and failed compiles.

ACK.

> In the past, I've worked around this issue by using preprocessor magic.  
> When we detect internal version will be used then add a "#define 
> snprintf sanei_snprintf" to some global header file.  Then normal code 
> keeps referring to just snprintf() but it sometimes get remapped to 
> internal version without library knowing it.  Exported symbol table will 
> be proper sanei_ prefix as well.

SANE backends should not export sanei_ symbols.  The preprocessor
magic you suggest sounds fine to me.

Hope this helps,
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