conflict with previous declaration of 'putchar'

[pklapperich]

Unable to build with sdcc 3.9.0:

CC radio/golay.c
CC radio/serial.c
radio/serial.c:541: error 98: conflict with previous declaration of 'putchar' for attribute 'type' at /usr/bin/../share/sdcc/include/stdio.h:86
from type 'int function ( int fixed) fixed'
  to type 'void function ( unsigned-char fixed) __reentrant fixed'
make[1]: *** [include/rules.mk:135: obj/rfd900a/radio~rfd900a/serial.rel] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/paulk/botlink/SiK/Firmware'
make: *** [Makefile:95: install~radio~rfd900a] Error 2

I changed the signature in serial.c to

int                                                                                                 
putchar(int c) __reentrant

and it's working fine for me. But I suspect there's a more correct fix.

I found what looks like the same issue on the sdcc mailing list from 2007, but the PUTCHAR definition doesn't exist, so the reply there was unhelpful.

[spth]

This should be correct:

int
putchar(int c) __reentrant
{
    if (c == '\n')
        _serial_write('\r');
    _serial_write(c);
    return c;
}

By the C standard, putchar() takes an int, and returns it (using an int allows for error reporting, by returning EOF).

[AndKe]

Thank you, this stopped me too. With SDCC 3.8 , I needed to remove "-Werror" to get it compiled, - did you need it removed with 3.9 ?

[spth]

I had to remove it for SDCC 3.9.5.