[Expat-discuss] Re: Conflict with two expat shared libraries

[Karl Waclawek]

Karl Waclawek wrote:
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> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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>> * Karl Waclawek <karl at waclawek.net> wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>>> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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>>>> Probably I missed something, but if *the same* API function exist 
>>>> with different behaviour (ie one time seeing char* as 8bit-string 
>>>> and another time as 16bit string) is a fundamental misdesign.
>>>
>>>
>>> They are not the same API functions, as the signatures are
>>> different due to the different type of XML_Char.
>>> This overloading of names is quite common.
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>> Is the linker (ld.so) able to handle this overloading properly ?
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> I don't know about Linux - but there was a thread about it
> a while ago. In Windows - where I usually work - this is no problem.

I think I found the Linux discussion: Check the October 2004 archives
and look for the thread "Conflict with two expat shared libraries".

Karl