Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-14 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:56:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
Nicholas Clark wrote: On the other hand, we've managed very well in Perl 5 with the flag data in embed.fnc and generating the annotated headers programmatically. Interesting. I quite like this. Nicholas Clark Ron

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Joshua Isom
On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: My view of this is something along these lines. You can use any function you want at all, but if it's not documented as part o

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread jerry gay
On 4/12/07, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > My view of this is something along these lines. You can use any > function you want at all, but if it's not documented as p

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > My view of this is something along these lines. You can use any > function you want at all, but if it's not documented as part of the > supported API, there's nothing saying I

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Joshua Isom
On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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: I think that we need to tread very carefully with adding additional gcc-isms to Parrot, lest we break compatibility wi

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:56:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 li

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:56:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread nahoo82
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

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
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

Re: Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Steve Peters
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 > expor

Limiting Exported Symbols on GCC

2007-04-12 Thread Ron Blaschke
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://g