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Subject: gcc 4.x symbol visibility
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Hill <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS core-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:46:49 -0500
Hi Jeff,

I came across this webpage some time ago http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility 
and added the relevant attributes to a private version of shareLib.h:

=== modified file 'src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h'
--- src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h  2008-08-06 16:52:52 +0000
+++ src/libCom/misc/shareLib.h  2011-09-28 22:38:37 +0000
@@ -139,6 +139,24 @@
 #   define epicsShareDef 
 #   define epicsShareAPI __stdcall /* function removes arguments */
 #   define READONLY const
+
+#elif __GNUC__ >= 4
+/*
+ * See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
+ */
+
+#   define epicsShareExtern __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) extern
+#   define epicsShareClass __attribute__ ((visibility("default")))
+#   define epicsShareFunc __attribute__ ((visibility("default")))
+
+#   define epicsShareDef
+#   define epicsShareAPI
+#   if defined(__STDC__) || defined (__cplusplus)
+#       define READONLY const
+#   else
+#       define READONLY
+#   endif
+
 /*
  * if its the old VAX C Compiler (not DEC C)
  */


When I enable it by adding the -fvisibility=hidden flag to gcc for a linux-
x86_64 build I get quite a reduction in teh number of exported symbols 
(counted using 'nm -C -D | wc -l'):

Library               Original  Visibility
-------               --------  ----------
libca.so.3.15            1427         370
libcas.so.3.15           1167         336
libCom.so.3.15           1340         905
libdbCore.so.3.15         974         692
libdbRecStd.so.3.15       253         178
libdbStaticHost.so.3.15   232         208
libgdd.so.3.15            323         249

This looks like it would be a very worthwhile addition, except I'm getting a 
couple of build errors for the 3.15 branch, can you work out what needs 
decorating?

make[5]: Entering directory 
`/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/mirror-3.15/src/ca/legacy/pcas/example/directoryService/O.linux-
x86_64'
/home/phoebus/ANJ/Linux64/bin/g++ -o caDirServ  -
L/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/mirror-3.15/lib/linux-x86_64 -Wl,-
rpath,/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/mirror-3.15/lib/linux-x86_64       -m64                
main.o directoryServer.o   -lcas -lca -lgdd -lCom   
directoryServer.o:(.rodata._ZTI15directoryServer[typeinfo for 
directoryServer]+0x10): undefined reference to `typeinfo for caServer'
/home/phoebus3/ANJ/epics/base/mirror-3.15/lib/linux-x86_64/libcas.so: 
undefined reference to `typeinfo for fdReg'

I'm also not sure where to set the -fvisibility flag, because it's not 
supported before gcc 4.0 — I'll check with Janet, but ideas welcome...

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
-- Roger Needham


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