Re: RFC: Symbol exports

Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.optimize
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 26 July 2004 22:47, Karl Vogel wrote:
> Right.. I now have a complete KDELIBS / KDEBASE running build with
> gcc+visibility patch and default visibility set to hidden. This means that
> nothing is exported in shared libs by default.
>
> I'm now wondering if this *huge* patch will stand any chance of being
> applied (before doing too much extra work on it) ?!  And no I don't mean
> for 3.3 :-)

IMHO if this patch decreases the file sizes (less io, less memory  
consumption), reduces the size of the symbol tables (las work for the linker, 
only intended symbols are usable) and can be disabled tiheout big problems, 
then it should definitely go in :-)

Bye
Alex
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