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Q35902: /FPa; "Symbol Defined More Than Once" Linking BASIC and Pascal

Article: Q35902
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 6.00 6.00b 7.00 | 6.00 6.00b 7.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# G880915-3308 buglist6.00 buglist6.00b buglist7.00 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 2-MAR-1990

If you compile Microsoft BASIC and Microsoft Pascal modules with the
alternate-math library (/FPa) option, a "Symbol Defined More than
Once" error occurs when you LINK the BASIC and Pascal modules. This
problem occurs in Microsoft BASIC Compiler Versions 6.00 and 6.00b for
MS-DOS and MS OS/2, and in Microsoft BASIC Professional Development
System (PDS) Version 7.00 for MS-DOS and MS OS/2.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft BASIC
Compiler Versions 6.00 and 6.00b and in Microsoft BASIC PDS Version
7.00. We are researching this problem and will post new information
here as it becomes available.

The programs correctly link together if you compile the BASIC program
with the stand-alone (BC /O) option.

To duplicate the problem, follow the steps below:

1. Compile the BASIC program -- BC prog /Fpa;

2. Compile the Pascal routine -- PL /FPa /C  progr.pas

3. Link the BASIC and Pascal modules -- LINK prog + progr /noe;

4. The linker displays the following error:

      LIBPASA.LIB(fcall.ASM) : error L2025: __fpmath : symbol defined
      more than once
      pos: 1339E Record type: 7F04

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