On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:13:14AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:37:24PM +0200, Ron Blaschke wrote: > > While poking the GCC documentation I found that there's a feature > > available to limit the exported symbols (with GCC >= 3.3). Maybe worth > > considering? > > It's probably a design decision. If there's an option to limit the > > exported symbols or make all available, which one should be taken? > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.6/gcc/Function-Attributes.html#Function-Attributes > > > > This can be done by adding C<-fvisibility=hidden> to CFLAGS and setting > > PARROT_API to C<__attribute__ ((visibility("default")))>. > > > > > > I think that we need to tread very carefully with adding additional > gcc-isms to Parrot, lest we break compatibility with additional compilers > even further. If Parrot will run everywhere, we need to think about > working more towards ANSI and POSIX compliance.
I think that the same effect can be achieved using a linker script (although I don't know much about them), in wich case you are not depending on a compiler feature.
