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Re: PATCH: dllexport and visibility
Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
Mark Mitchell wrote:
At least one system (ARM Symbian OS) wants to use "dllexport" and
"dllimport", but is an ELF system, and will translate these into ELF
visibilities. This patch provides support for that: "dllexport"
implies "STV_DEFAULT" visibility unless explicitly overridden.
Would it be worthwhile or wise to reciprocate this functionality to
non-ELF targets that were previously using dllimport/dllexport?
ELF has a wider notion of visibilty that dllimport/dllexport; the latter
is pretty well mapped on to a subset of the ELF notion. I don't really
see an advantage to trying to do anything with DECL_VISIBILITY on, say,
PE/COFF, but there may have been enhancements to that format since I
looked last.
In short, I think not, but I could be wrong.
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