Ignore duplicate definitions from different files (Feature request)

[gatopeich]

Hello I am often compiling together different 3GPP specs that include duplicate definitions of the same object.

Here is a very popular one, found in many 3G/4G/5G specs:

PLMN-Identity ::= OCTET STRING (SIZE(3))

Would it be too hard to allow duplicate definitions when they are exactly the same?

[mouse07410]

Sorry, no.

asn1c is a very complicated code. AFAICT, what you propose would require a change much more serious than I'm able to handle. Plus, the problem cause here is a broken (incompetent) standard.

A "normal" workaround is removing that definition from all of them into a separate file.