no warning on missing constructor

[srvaldez]

I post here because I don't have a small code example to show the problem.
just for fun I put together some code to use the extended precision of libm, I declared constructors in the type definition but forgot to implement one of the constructors.
some tests compiled and run ok without warning until I tried to run a larger example where the constructor was called, I got this message

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Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "__ZN11CLONGDOUBLEC1Ed", referenced from:
      _main in example.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
Compilation failed.

it would be nice to receive a warning of the missing constructor.

[TeeEmCee]

I don't see the problem. Not defining a constructor is a link-time error. It can't be caught while compiling any individual .bas file, because it could be defined in any other .bas file. So fbc can't print an error message, but the linker did.

Although, it's strange that ld didn't demangle the symbol name. According to the man page, the --demangle option is on by default. Maybe a particular demangling style needs to be specified? Or is it possible it's the GOLD linker? GOLD has the same option, but doesn't say whether it's on by default.

[srvaldez]

the problem is that it's not obvious where the problem is, now if the symbol reported by ld was un-mangled then it would be easier hunt the bug.

[TeeEmCee]

What OS are you using? I assume Windows, because there's an extra leading underscore on the symbol name.
If you pass "-Wl --demangle" to fbc when compiling, does it demangle the name? What about "-Wl --demangle=gnu"?

[srvaldez]

What OS are you using? I assume Windows

no, this is on OS X, my apologies, I should have given that information in my first post, as for the command line options you gave, ld reports that they are unknown.

[TeeEmCee]

Oh, well that explains it. OSX's ld is an ancient fork of BSD ld, and doesn't demangle symbols. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Mingw/Windows all use the GNU linker, which demangles symbols. GNU ld and GNU gold don't even support OSX last I checked, because it's very peculiar. You're out of luck.