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Re: On which platforms is -fvisibility supported?
- From: Jonathan Turkanis <technews at kangaroologic dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:48:19 -0600
- Subject: Re: On which platforms is -fvisibility supported?
Mike Stump wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>
>> I've asked this question twice at gcc-help, but got no response.
>> On which platforms is the -fvisibility option supported?
> autoconf will answer this question for you, please use it.
Do you mean I should run autoconf on each platform where GCC is available to get
an answer? I'm sure you don't think this is a practical suggestion, which leaves
me wondering what you really mean.
> Giving you an answer strikes me as dangerous.
Why?
> If you tell us what the real question is, maybe we can answer that one.
First tell me what your real answer is.
> ELF, darwin would be my approximate answer, if you had to have one.
You don't have to have one. But a non-answer is worse than no answer.
>> The GCC docs here (http://tinyurl.com/99wc8) suggest that it is a subset of
ELF platforms. Is that correct?
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> No. It also works on darwin, darwin is not an ELF platform.
Then the documentation is seriously misleading.
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Jonathan Turkanis
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