Re: [Boost-users] multiple definitions of symbol with Boost.Test

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-02 18:05:30

"Daryle Walker" <darylew_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:BAY104-DAV12CEDE10E2BA0B8D83BFEABF2D0_at_phx.gbl...
> On 12/27/05 10:52 PM, "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>>> I had the same problem with vc 7.1.
>>
>> Strange. I never had problems like this with vc7.1
>>
>>> If you add 'static' to all
>>> variables definitions in anonymous namespaces it works fine.
>>
>> But anonimous namespace should do the trick itself!
>
> I don't think that the two concepts are identical.  For a global object
> defined in a file, "static" limits that object to only be reachable to 
> other
> items within that file.  An object in the anonymous namespace has an
> unreachable name outside its file, but the object itself is still
> technically a program-wide global.

Well, in this case it should lead to the same result: no duplicate symbols

Gennadiy