C++ name mangling

a couple days ago, the boss asked me to convert a C++ project from X86 to X86_64. I thought it is easy for me, just do two the following steps:

• 1. replace all of the x86 libraries (SO)to their counterparts of x86_64
• 2. change the compile option from -m32 to  -m 64

After that, I tried to make the project. it ended with the following error: libcommonldap.so: undefined reference to `NewDecryptStr(char*, unsigned int)

It is a usual link error. Using objdump to check if this symbol is there.

[root@centos src]# objdump -t output/libsupport.so  | grep NewD
00000000000123af g     F .text 00000000000000e7              _Z13NewDecryptStrPcm

Yes, it is there. but why ld can not find it? I konw the symbol  _Z13NewDecryptStrPcj is what I wanted. The wired name is caused by c++ name mangling. But why the ld does not recognize it? What the ld really wants? Using objdump again to check:

[root@centos src]# objdump -t output/libcommonldap.so  | grep NewD
0000000000000000         *UND* 0000000000000000              _Z13NewDecryptStrPcj

I got it. The symbol the ld is looking for is one letter different with the one exported from libsupport.so. But the defination  is exactlly the same as follows

int NewDecryptStr(char *sEncryptedPassword, const size_t sizeof_sEncryptedPassword)

Why g++ generates differents name for the same defination? It confused the whole afternoon.

The next day I thought if I coud decode the symbol to defination to check what relly happend. So I googled it and found this tool: c++filt
I decoded the two symbols as follows:

[root@centos commonsource]# c++filt  _Z13NewDecryptStrPcm
NewDecryptStr(char*, unsigned long)
[root@centos commonsource]# c++filt  _Z13NewDecryptStrPcj
NewDecryptStr(char*, unsigned int)
[root@centos commonsource]#

It is clear that the difinations are different. the size_t mapped to different types. finally, I found a typedef 

#ifndef size_t
#define size_t unsigned int
#endif

It is true for x86, but for x86_64, size_t should be ULONG. This is the reason