Without explicit -std=
option, calling gcc
is the same as -std=gnu89
with means C89 + GNU extensions. The GNU extensions will enable macros which will enable the presence of the functions in your header.
be64toh not linking or being declared when compiling with -std=c99
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01-07-2022 - |
Question
When I compile the following program (the code for all the defines I've gotten from 64 bit ntohl() in C++? which seemed sensible):
#include <stdint.h>
#if defined(__linux__)
#include <endian.h> //htobe64,be64toh
#include <arpa/inet.h> //ntohs, ntohl, htonl, htons
#elif defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__)
#include <sys/endian.h>
#elif defined(__OpenBSD__)
#include <sys/types.h>
#define be16toh(x) betoh16(x)
#define be32toh(x) betoh32(x)
#define be64toh(x) betoh64(x)
#endif
int main()
{
int64_t i = 0x1212121234343434;
int64_t j = be64toh(i);
return 0;
}
I get a linking error when compiling it with the following command (I'm running linux):
gcc -std=c99 endian_test.c -o endian
The error i receive is:
user@host ~/src/c $ gcc -std=c99 derp.c
endian_test.c: In function ‘main’:
endian_test.c:17:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘be64toh’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
int64_t j = be64toh(i);
^
/tmp/ccYonfH4.o: In function `main':
endian_test.c:(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `be64toh'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Which to me indicates two things, the header itself is included but doesn't really contain the functions/macros needed for this to work and because that means the compiler hopes it's gonna find the function later it tries to go ahead anyway but fails when trying to link.
But if i use the following command to compile (just remove -std=c99
):
gcc endian_test.c -o endian
Everything is smooth as butter and works. Any idea why it's happening and what i could do to remedy it? To me it doesn't make sense that functions given by the kernel (or am i mistaken in that fact?) change depending on what standard i use when compiling?
Thanks in advance!
Solution
OTHER TIPS
If you see the be64toh
manual, you will see that it needs the _BSD_SOURCE
to be defined. So on Linux #define
it before you include <endian.h>
.
I had this problem. The solution was to declare not only
#define _BSD_SOURCE
but also
#define __USE_BSD
Recent changes to glibc has meant you need
#define _DEFAULT_SOURCE
instead of
#define _BSD_SOURCE