Re: fvisibility-inlines-hidden

[Howard Hinnant <hhinnant at apple dot com>]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> > Is there a document, or a discussion that someone can point me to  
> > which
> > explains why fvisibility-inlines-hidden applies to member functions,
> > but not non-member functions?
>
> AFAICT, there is very little documentation for any of the visibility
> stuff. There is a web page referenced as "documentation", the pointer
> to which you can find in the GCC-4.0.0 release notes.
>
> There's been a lot of discussion in bugzilla about these features, but
> little else.
>
> -benjamin

Thanks Benjamin.  These are the docs I can find:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect- 
Options.html#C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options

The two are contradictory towards the treatment of non-member inline  
functions.  I believe the first document is the one that correctly  
describes today's behavior.

I'm unable to find a bugzilla conversation which addresses this subject.

Let me rephrase:  It seems to me that fvisibility-inlines-hidden  
should apply to all inline functions (both member and non-member).   
Does anyone have an argument for why it should not be this way?

-Howard