Bug? Error in phobos?

[TomD]

Regan Heath Wrote:

> Regan Heath wrote:
> > import std.socket;
> > import std.c.windows.winsock;
> > 
> > pragma(lib, "wsock32.lib");
> > 
> > class IndexPacketReader
> > {
> >     //static void foo()  //works
> >     void foo()
> >     {
> >         ntohl(1);  //fails
> >     }
> > }
> > 
> > void main()
> > {
> >     new TcpSocket();
> >     //ntohl(1); //works
> > }
> > 
> > E:\D\src\tmp>dmd bug003.d
> > E:\D\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe bug003,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
> > OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
> > Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
> > 
> > E:\D\dmd\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(winsock)  Offset 276FEH Record Type 00C3
> >  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _ntohl at 4
> > --- errorlevel 1
> > 
> > Anyone know what this means?
> 
> No-one??  This bug is particularly annoying because it prevents me from 
> calling ntohl, ntohs etc from within a class method.  In the end I just 
> wrote my own ntohl functin and called that.
> 
> Regan

It works when you drop the new TcpSocket(). Go figure. It gives me no clue
what may be the reason.

Ciao
TomD