[Bug fortran/46448] [4.6 Regression] [OOP] symbol `__copy_...' is already defined

[sfilippone at uniroma2 dot it]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46448

--- Comment #3 from Salvatore Filippone <sfilippone at uniroma2 dot it> 2010-12-31 22:52:03 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I think you should check whether the symbol is already there using the "gsym"
> (assuming that -fwhole-file is used - but I think that can be assumed ;-).
> 
> There should be only one such function per translation unit; it should use
> everywhere the same decl (UID) and - of course - it should be not exported
> ('static') such that you can have the same function in multiple translation
> units. (Which is ugly - best would be to have only once per program, but I
> think the .mod file is emitted before the CLASS is encountered.)

I just discovered that changing the order of some USE statements in one
intermediate module makes the extra __copy symbol disappear. 
While it's a nice workaround, it's a bit suspicious.....