On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 20:22:58 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Saturday, 22 August 2015 at 20:14:59 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I'm not sure how export would help on Linux.
One of the use cases for export on Linux would be to set the
ELF visibility based on it. Emitting all the symbols with
default visibility, like we currently do, leads to size and
load time problems with large libraries. Big C++ projects are
plagued regularly by this (cf. "-fvisibility=hidden").
— David
The good news is, once I'm done with my windows DLL work the code
can be trivialy reused to make export control the visibility of
symbols on linux as well.
Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut
