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. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
