https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93585
--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Norman Goldstein from comment #4) > This makes sense. Would it be a reasonable option to have the linker check > for such mismatches? As Andrew already said, it can only be done with LTO, and with LTO it is already warned about. Try compiling and linking with -flto. > The name mangling must be dropped at some point in the > link process, for the two symbols to resolve each other at link time. No, because the names of variables are not mangled. The name is just "foo" in both cases.
