[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] gcc4 visibility support

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

(Luca forwarded me the mail, as I'm not subscribed to ffmpeg-devel)

On Friday 02 June 2006 19:39, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> is putting EXPORT at the end a good idea readablity wise? IMHO putting
> it before the identifer looks nicer, dunno about portability
I usually put it that way, but does not really change if it's

EXPORTED int exported();
int EXPORTED exported();
int exported() EXPORTED;

all those are fine.

> this variable doesnt exist anymore according to grep
When I prepared the patch, I tried to be as conservative as possible (it's 
easier to cut down what's not needed, rather than having to figure out what's 
missing), so I simply exported all the symbols in the installed headers. This 
also follows the rule that the installed headers should only show the public 
API of a library.

Anything that got exported that shouldn't, and anything that got exported and 
does not exists, is already shown to the library's users, as they are 
included int hose header files. If they should not exported, it would be 
better not to let people know of them entirely :)

A few items are exported that are not in the installed headers, those are the 
ones needed to let ffmpeg compile and work properly, because of interlibrary 
dependencies.

> > Index: ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20060530/configure
> > ===================================================================
> > --- ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20060530.orig/configure
> > +++ ffmpeg-0.4.9-p20060530/configure
> > @@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ os2="yes"
> >  ;;
> >  *) ;;
> >  esac
> > +CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I\$(BUILD_ROOT)/libavcodec -I\$(BUILD_ROOT)/libavformat
> > -I\$(BUILD_ROOT)/libavutil"
>
> random unrelated change?
Nop, although I should have explained this.
Basically when I was working on the patch some of the included headers were 
picked up from /usr/include, resulting in the non-patched non-exporting 
version, so that some symbols gone missing. With this, ffmpeg always prefers 
the current copy to the installed one.

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Petten? - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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