On Mon, 9 May 2016, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> The libedit build system is unusual in so far as it compiles almost all
> C files (but not all of them) as a single compilation unit, editline.c,
> that #includes most of the other *.c files.
...
> I'd prefer compiling all modules seperately, like we do it for most
> other libraries. To preserve the benefit of hiding internal interfaces
> from the public interface, i'd like to use
> __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) as suggested by Philip Guenther@.
The one caveat I failed to mention is that visibility doesn't work for the
static library. The result is that while you can use arbitrary names for
static symbols, hidden symbols *do* need to follow some sort of naming
scheme to avoid accidental overriding when static linking.
With that caveat: go for it!
Philip
