Re: sl_free() name collision on Mac OS X (ITS#3092)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Seems like renaming slapd's sl_free() and friends with a
'slap_' prefix is the thing to do here.  Patch welcomed.

Kurt

At 06:22 PM 4/15/2004, jtownsend@apple.com wrote:
>Full_Name: Jason Townsend
>Version: 2.2.7
>OS: Mac OS X 10.3.3
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (17.221.43.149)
>
>
>It appears that there is a name collision between the sl_free() in libSystem on
>Mac OS X and OpenLDAP's internal sl_free function (present in OpenLDAP 2.2.x).
>
>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/sl_free.3.html
>
>void
>sl_free(StringList *sl, int freeall);
>
>void
>sl_free( void *ptr, void *ctx );
>
>This is the resulting linker error:
>
>ld: for architecture ppc
>ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _sl_free
>sl_malloc.o definition of _sl_free in section (__TEXT,__text)
>/usr/lib/libSystem.dylib(super.So) definition of _sl_free
>
>Due to this issue, it is not possible to use flat namespace when running slapd
>in the debugger, which is necessary to use libgmalloc or libMallocDebug to look
>for buffer overflows or memory leaks.
>
>Perhaps the OpenLDAP function could be renamed to avoid this collision?
>
>-Jason