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FFI: exporting the same thing multiple times fails: error: redefinition of ‘stginit_export_ShouldCompile_zdfdiv’

If we foreign export the same thing multiple times, e.g.:

foreign export ccall "addByte" (+) :: Int8  -> Int8  -> Int8
foreign export ccall "addInt"  (+) :: Int16 -> Int16 -> Int16
foreign export ccall "addLong" (+) :: Int32 -> Int32 -> Int32

then compilation fails due to redefinition of stginit_export_ShouldCompile_zdfzp. In the _stub.c we generate

static void stginit_export_ShouldCompile_zdfzp() __attribute__((constructor));
static void stginit_export_ShouldCompile_zdfzp()
{getStablePtr((StgPtr) &ShouldCompile_zdfzp_closure);}

n times.

It looks like the fix is simply to only generate it once; we just need to rejig the code so that that happens.

Test is cc013.

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Version 6.6.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority high
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler (FFI)
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