Re: [wwwdocs] 4.2 visibility, anonymous namespace changes 4.3 TLS emu changes

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jason Merrill wrote:
> C++ visibility handling has been overhauled for 4.2:

Thanks for the description.  I transformed this into a patch, and went
installing the below.

Gerald

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   <ul>
     <li>
+      <p>C++ visibility handling has been overhauled.</p>
+
+      <p>Restricted visiblity is propagated from classes to members, from
+      functions to local statics, and from templates and template arguments
+      to instantiations, unless the latter has explicitly declared visibility.
+      </p>
+
+      <p>The visibility attribute for a class must come between the class-key
+      and the name, not after the closing brace.</p>
+
+      <p>Attributes are now allowed for enums and elaborated-type-specifiers
+      that only declare a type.</p>
+
+      <p>Members of the anonymous namespace are now local to a particular
+      translation unit, along with any other declarations which use them,
+      though they are still treated as having external linkage for language
+      semantics.</p>
+    </li>
+
+    <li>
      The (undocumented) extension which permitted templates with
      default arguments to be bound to template template parameters with
      fewer parameters has been removed.  For example: