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Re: Why are libgcc.a and libgcc_eh.a compiled with -fvisibility=hidden?

Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> writes:

>> So ... is there a valid reason for this, or is this just an accident
>> of history?  AFICT, this behavior dates back to 2007 as of r120429
>> (http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgcc/static-object.mk?view=markup&pathr
>>ev=120429).
>
> At least on some platforms, you cannot have more than one libgcc_eh in an 
> entire link, otherwise you cannot propagate exceptions across modules.

True, but not, as far as I can see, an explanation for why the symbols
are hidden.  Hiding the symbols doesn't fix the problem of having
multiple libgcc_eh on those platforms.

Ian
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