GCC function name conflict

Question

I was having some problems with a sample code i was testing, since my abs function was not returning the correct result. abs(-2) was outputing -2 (this, by the way, is supos

Answer 1

Sounds a lot like this bug, which is from 2007 and noted as being fixed.

You should of course try to compile without GCC's intrinics, i.e. pass -fno-builtin (or just -fno-builtin-abs to snipe out only abs()) when compiling.