Our docs about --enable/--disable-visibility

Paolo Carlini paolo.carlini@oracle.com
Mon Oct 31 10:48:00 GMT 2011


On 10/31/2011 11:41 AM, Vincenzo Innocente wrote:
> The problem is that "default" means "force external visibility", not 
> "use user visibility". "the large majority of the users" will not set 
> visibility at all, therefore "no decoration" will be equivalent to 
> "external visibility". The current default instead forces those 
> willing to control visibility to recompile the compiler
Doesn't seem a big issue to me, frankly, we are talking about a very 
small fraction of the users and hey, in general, people should get used 
(again?) to tweak and re-build Free Software! Here we are *not* 
providing Black Boxes!! ;)

Paolo.



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