I am playing around with using Semaphores, but I keep encountering Undefined Reference warnings, thus causing my code not to work. I pulled example code from a text, but was having issues with some of their syntax, so I went to POSIX's semaphore tutorial and changed things around to their syntax and as a result am now getting these reference errors.
I may simply be overlooking something, but I cannot find it.
Errors:
Producers_Consumers.c:52: warning: return type of ‘main’ is not ‘int’
/tmp/cceeOM6F.o: In function `producer':
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to `sem_init'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x3a): undefined reference to `sem_init'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x46): undefined reference to `sem_wait'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `sem_wait'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x5e): undefined reference to `sem_post'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x6a): undefined reference to `sem_post'
/tmp/cceeOM6F.o: In function `consumer':
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x7e): undefined reference to `sem_wait'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x8a): undefined reference to `sem_wait'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0x96): undefined reference to `sem_post'
Producers_Consumers.c:(.text+0xa2): undefined reference to `sem_post'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
What I have (It may look a bit ugly due to the way I commented things out from my old method) I also know my adding method won't work, but I'll get to that when I fix my syntax issues:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <semaphore.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define N 10 //Number of slots in buffer
typedef int semaphore; //Semaphores ae a special kind of int
sem_t mutex; //Controls access to critical region 1
sem_t empty; //Counts empty buffer slots N
sem_t full; //Counts full buffer slots 0
int count = 0; //What we're putting in
//int buffer[N];
void producer(void) {
sem_init(&mutex, 0, 1);
//sem_init(&empty, 0, N);
sem_init(&full, 0, 0);
while(1) {
sem_wait(&empty);
sem_wait(&mutex);
//printf("Empy: %d\n",empty);
//printf("Mutex: %d\n",mutex);
//printf("Both Downs Ran\n");
//buffer = buffer + 1;
sem_post(&mutex);
sem_post(&full);
//printf("Producer produced: %d\n",buffer);
}
}
void consumer(void) {
while(1) {
sem_wait(&full);
sem_wait(&mutex);
//item = buffer;
sem_post(&mutex);
sem_post(&empty);
//printf("Consumer consumed: %d/n",item);
}
}
void main() {
}
If you are on a linux system, you'll need to compile and link with the -pthread
flag to link the pthreads library.
gcc -pthread Producers_Consumers.c
As Paul Griffiths has pointed out, you can also use -lrt
, which is more portable, and links the POSIX Realtime Extensions library
gcc Producers_Consumers.c -lrt
Other notes specific to the code in the question:
int main(void)
not void main()
typedef int semaphore
is wrong, sem_t
should be treated as an opaque type, you never use this typedef in your code anyway.consumer
code uses the semaphores before they are initialized in producer
. You should initialize them in your main
Got same error in ubuntu qt. After adding
LIBS += -lpthread -lrt
to project.pro file all compiled fine.
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