[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] gcc4 visibility support

[Erik Slagter]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 18:45 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:

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> When hiding symbols, the entry points in the libraries are removed, the 
> symbols are not visible by outside, so for a start VLC can't declare two 
> externs with the name of the mpeg4 matrix tables and use them if they are not 
> exported by the library. This brings a development upside: you have control 
> on the symbols you export, if some software is relying on the internal 
> variables and structures, it's cut off, it avoids mysterious crashes due to 
> change in ABI of internal functions.

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At the risk of talking utterly non-sense: in what respect does this
concept differ from declaring a symbol static or non-static?
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