[PATCH 0/2] intel: hide library symbols by default

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at intel.com
Thu Sep 13 08:03:28 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 2018-09-12 14:05:34 -0700, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> Rely on -fvisibility=hidden to hide the symbols. This only applies to
> drm_intel.so sice there's no point in extending this if it receives a
> nack for some reason. For the same reason, only done on meson as well.
> 
> drm_private can also be removed from other symbols. If this passes a
> smoke test I'll add a patch on v2 doing so.

Series is
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com>

but yeah, without that 3rd patch to remove drm_private it isn't all that
useful :P

Do you plan on converting the rest of libdrm if/when this gets accepted?
It looks like you already got all the scripts ready to go ;)

> 
> From git log archeology and mention in another thread we used to pass
> -fvisibility=hidden, but reverted to the contrary due to bug in obscure
> toolchain some years ago (see 0f8da82500ec542e269092c0718479e25eaff5f6).
> I think it's time to revisit that decision: we have plenty of other
> projects doing that nowadays without problem.
> 
> Lucas De Marchi (2):
>   intel: annotate public functions
>   meson: intel: make symbols hidden by default
> 
>  intel/intel_bufmgr.c      | 64 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  intel/intel_bufmgr_fake.c | 10 +++---
>  intel/intel_bufmgr_gem.c  | 73 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  intel/intel_decode.c      | 14 ++++----
>  intel/meson.build         |  4 ++-
>  libdrm_macros.h           |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 


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