Re: On which platforms is -fvisibility supported?

[Hank Kester <hankkester at gmail dot com>]

On 9/22/05, Jonathan Turkanis <technews@kangaroologic.com> wrote:

>  >> > M-x grep VISIBILITY tells you the answer.
>  >> What are you grepping?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Why, the source code to gcc of course.
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> Let's go back a bit:
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> Mike Stump  wrote:
>
>  > Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>  > > So it seems a fair question to ask where -fvisibility is
>  > > supported. An answer that isn't "completely useless" would
>  > > be appreciated.
>  > M-x grep VISIBILITY tells you the answer.
>
>
> If the implication is that users should grep the source code before asking
> questions, that's not a reasonable expectation.

I think that expecting the author of an email to the mailing list for
developers of a program to have at least taken a cursory glance at the
source of said program is entirely reasonable. Especially if the
question regards how something in done in the source.

-Hank K.