1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/cmd/cgo/out.go b/src/cmd/cgo/out.go
index bc0b0b6387..c49b51c611 100644
--- a/src/cmd/cgo/out.go
+++ b/src/cmd/cgo/out.go
@@ -1555,6 +1555,7 @@ const builtinProlog = `
 /* Define intgo when compiling with GCC.  */
 typedef ptrdiff_t intgo;
 
+#define GO_CGO_GOSTRING_TYPEDEF
 typedef struct { const char *p; intgo n; } _GoString_;
 typedef struct { char *p; intgo n; intgo c; } _GoBytes_;
 _GoString_ GoString(char *p);
@@ -1806,15 +1807,20 @@ void localCgoCheckResult(Eface val) {
 // because _cgo_export.h defines GoString as a struct while builtinProlog
 // defines it as a function. We don't change this to avoid unnecessarily
 // breaking existing code.
+// The test of GO_CGO_GOSTRING_TYPEDEF avoids a duplicate definition
+// error if a Go file with a cgo comment #include's the export header
+// generated by a different package.
 const builtinExportProlog = `
-#line 1 "cgo-builtin-prolog"
+#line 1 "cgo-builtin-export-prolog"
 
 #include <stddef.h> /* for ptrdiff_t below */
 
 #ifndef GO_CGO_EXPORT_PROLOGUE_H
 #define GO_CGO_EXPORT_PROLOGUE_H
 
+#ifndef GO_CGO_GOSTRING_TYPEDEF
 typedef struct { const char *p; ptrdiff_t n; } _GoString_;
+#endif
 
 #endif
 `
@@ -1823,6 +1829,19 @@ func (p *Package) gccExportHeaderProlog() string {
 	return strings.Replace(gccExportHeaderProlog, "GOINTBITS", fmt.Sprint(8*p.IntSize), -1)
 }
 
+// gccExportHeaderProlog is written to the exported header, after the
+// import "C" comment preamble but before the generated declarations
+// of exported functions. This permits the generated declarations to
+// use the type names that appear in goTypes, above.
+//
+// The test of GO_CGO_GOSTRING_TYPEDEF avoids a duplicate definition
+// error if a Go file with a cgo comment #include's the export header
+// generated by a different package. Unfortunately GoString means two
+// different things: in this prolog it means a C name for the Go type,
+// while in the prolog written into the start of the C code generated
+// from a cgo-using Go file it means the C.GoString function. There is
+// no way to resolve this conflict, but it also doesn't make much
+// difference, as Go code never wants to refer to the latter meaning.
 const gccExportHeaderProlog = `
 /* Start of boilerplate cgo prologue.  */
 #line 1 "cgo-gcc-export-header-prolog"
@@ -1852,7 +1871,9 @@ typedef double _Complex GoComplex128;
 */
 typedef char _check_for_GOINTBITS_bit_pointer_matching_GoInt[sizeof(void*)==GOINTBITS/8 ? 1:-1];
 
+#ifndef GO_CGO_GOSTRING_TYPEDEF
 typedef _GoString_ GoString;
+#endif
 typedef void *GoMap;
 typedef void *GoChan;
 typedef struct { void *t; void *v; } GoInterface;