Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:24:24 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Linker warning
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I saw today a similar warning:

   c:/usr/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: Warning: type of symbol `_menu_bar_items' \
     changed from 4 to 36 in keyboard.o

(this was a single long line).  This happens when building Emacs.  It
looks like this warning is triggered by the name menu_bar_items being
used for a struct member and a function:

    struct frame
    {
      ...
      Lisp_Object menu_bar_items;
      ...
    };

    Lisp_Object
    menu_bar_items (old)
        Lisp_Object old;
    {
      ...

According to the ChangeLog, this code has been like that for a long
time, the only thing that's changed is that I installed Binutils 2.10
a day or two ago.

Since struct members and functions are in separate namespaces in C, I
wonder why does the linker bother to issue a warning?  Does that mean
that I have a real clash on my hands?