Re: [PATCH v6 15/27] compiler: Option to default to hidden symbols

From: Thomas Garnier
Date: Fri Feb 01 2019 - 12:01:06 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:13 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:22AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Provide an option to default visibility to hidden except for key
> > symbols.
>
> It took me a while to figure out the verb in this sentence... :P

I agree, I should rewrite this description.

>
> It's weird that we're annotating things to be default. What visibility
> are they we leave off the annotation?

The word "default" is confusing but that's how it is called by gcc.
Symbols not marked default are hidden.

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>


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Thomas