Re: [pcp] pcp updates: dso symvers part 2, brolley merge

[Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/05/2013 11:07 AM, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 12/04/2013 10:44 PM, Nathan Scott wrote:
>>     any new internal symbol we add, that cannot be marked static,
>>     should be marked as hidden (see _PCP_HIDDEN in internal.h).
>>     This apparently allows the compiler to deal with it optimally.
>>     This annotation only needs to be made within the header file.
> 
> If you drop the "extern" from such declarations, they should get the
> command-line -fvisibility=hidden automatically, rather than requiring
> this manual attribute notation.

Hmm, maybe not.  I know C functions are implicitly extern, but I thought
gcc treated explicit extern differently in regards to -fvisibility.  I
can't get that to work though, so nevermind...