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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Monday 26 October 2009 16:03:49 Sascha Räsch wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I suppose I've found an error in CGAL. The header file
> "AABB_intersections/Bbox_3_bbox_3_do_intersect.h"
> contains a declaration of the function "do_intersect".
> The problem was, that after including the header file twice in my project
> I got a linker error, because "do_intersect" occurred twice as a symbol
> in my object files.
> That is caused by the fact, that "do_intersect" is defined as a symbol
> in the header file and hence
> the header cannot be included twice in the whole project.

You are right. As a temporary workaround, you can qualify the declaration of 
that function with "inline".

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Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
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