Re: [boost] support for gcc hidden visibility in shared libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] support for gcc hidden visibility in shared libraries
From: Mat Marcus (mat-lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-05 11:45:17

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Stjepan Rajko <stjepan.rajko_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Alexander Arhipenko <arhipjan_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> I've assigned ticket to David Abrahams.
>> 2 Dave: hope this won't make you angry J
>>
>
> Other candidates might be John Maddock or Beman Dawes, as they are
> listed as authors of Boost.Config
>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>  Three comments:
>>> * the darwin toolset is affected the same way as gcc
>>
>> Is __GNUC__ macro defined when using darwin?
>>
>
> Yes, but it's <toolset>darwin rather than <toolset>gcc.
>
> I hope your changes go through.
>
> Best,
>
> Stjepan

On darwin platform, you'd experience fewer unpleasant surprises if you
aimed for -fvisibility-ms-compat, instead of 'hidden'.

 - Mat