Cool.  Thanks Johny.   learn something everyday.

I went and stared at section 11 to see what Johny was talking about and you
should be able to use the '@C' attribute notation.

eric


2012/1/10 Johny Mattsson <jmatts...@dius.com.au>

> Hello Anna,
>
> You can use nesC annotations to prevent the name mangling. Have a look at
> section 11 in the nesC 1.3 language reference manual. The first two are the
> ones which apply to your situation. Depending on the exact use case you may
> or may not need the second one. If you don't need it, then Eric's
> suggestion of simply putting the definition outside the implementation
> block should work just as well.
>
> Regards,
> /Johny
>
>
> 2012/1/11 Anna Förster <anna.foers...@supsi.ch>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to implement a tinyos interface to a software library. The
>> problem I am currently facing is that the NesC compiler re-names all
>> functions like this:
>>
>> in BlinkC.nc I define for example MY_FUNCTION
>> And then it is converted to BLINKC_MY_FUNCTION
>>
>> Well, what I am actually trying to do is the following simple scenario:
>>
>> An external C file uses an interface function, which needs to be defined
>> in Tinyos, let's say interface_function(). To compile the C file, I have
>> defined a INTERFACE.H file, where I only declare the function, but do not
>> impelment it. Then, in the tinyos code, I want to implement it by putting
>> exactly this fucntion into the implementation of the TinyOS component.
>>
>> What happens is that the linker cannot find the implementation of this
>> fucntion, because NesC has renamed its implementation to
>> BlinkC__interface_function().
>>
>> Any ideas of how to handle this?! Any other possibilities of how to
>> implement a tinyos function and call it from an external file?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Anna
>> --
>> Dr. Anna Förster
>> PostDoctoral Researcher
>> Networking Laboratory, SUPSI
>> Via Cantonale, Galleria 2
>> Manno, Switzerland
>> Tel. + 41 58 666 6597
>> http://www.dti.supsi.ch/~afoerste/
>>
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