Linking Libraries with Duplicate Class Names using GCC

Question

Is there a way for GCC to produce a warning while linking libraries that contain classes with the same name? For example

Port.h

class Port {         


        

Answer 1

No there isn't. The reason for this is that a class name is not a symbol as far as the linker is concerned. The C++ compiler will have used the class name to produce mangled function names, but the class name itself is gone by the time the linker gets involved.