PCD value could be overridden. You can give one common value. The different 
module could have their value. But, PCD type must be set to one type in DSC 
file.

EDKII Build tool provides the option -y and -Y to dump all PCD value and type 
for each driver. -y to specify the report file name. -Y specify the report 
type. For PCD, you can type build -y log -Y PCD. Then, you can know what PCD 
value is used for your driver.

Thanks
Liming
From: Olivier Martin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [edk2] Duplicate PCDs in DSC files

I am not sure the BaseTools has already raised a warning/error on multiple PCD 
definitions.
In our build system, it automatically appends 
'gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdFirmwareVersionString' at the end of the DSC 
file to track the built binaries.
And I have not seen any issue in case PcdFirmwareVersionString was already 
defined.

From: El-Haj-Mahmoud, Samer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 25 August 2014 18:59
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [edk2] Duplicate PCDs in DSC files

It looks like the build tools will not warn you (or stop with an error) if 
there are multiple declarations of the same PCD in the DSC file. In fact, the 
same PCD could be initialized multiple times using different values and 
different types (Fixed vs. Dynamic for instance), and the build tools will 
silently pick the last instance of the PCD in the DSC File.

We just finished debugging a nasty issue caused by duplicate PCDs, and it would 
have been nice to prevent this to begin with! Looks to me like a bug in the 
tool.

Can we add the ability to break the build if there are duplicate PCD instances 
in the DSC file?




Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud
System Firmware Architect
HP Servers

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