On 2 Oct 2013 at 14:48, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> > Then I have a main.cpp which creates an instance of ClassA and ClassB and
> > links to the library which contains ClassA.o and ClassB.o. When I compile
> > the main.cpp I get the linker error duplicate symbol for the
> > errinfo_api_function object in ClassA.o and ClassB.o. If I remove the
> > visibility=hidden flag, it links without problems. I am not an expert on
> > the compiler flags, but I saw that many libraries use the visibility=hidden
> > flag so I think it would be good, if my lib could also use it.
>
> Honestly I have no idea why this would happen. Anyone?

Throwable types must *always* be marked with attribute visibility
default. I assume this has been done correctly, but if it hasn't that
might help explain the problem. See my doc on the issue at
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility.