Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH] libkdeinit symbol pruning

[Karl Vogel]

Maks Orlovich wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 08:09 pm, Karl Vogel wrote:
>> David Faure wrote:
>> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>> >
>> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH] libkdeinit symbol pruning
>> > Date: Tuesday 20 July 2004 21:30
>> > From: Stephan Kulow <coolo at kde.org>
>> > To: David Faure <faure at kde.org>
>> >
>> > That am_edit patch is broken, the unsermake patch should work :)
>> >
>> > Greetings, Stephan
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Great! But I'm wondering what the problem with the am_edit patch was
>> then?!
>>
>>
>> Anyway.. more goodies.. I just finished testing the GCC visibility patch
>> on QT (gcc 3.4):
> 
> 
> <snip excellent work>
> If I recall correctly, Qt also uses a version script, doesn't it?

Not that I'm aware off.. don't see anything special in mkspecs/linux-g++

Also note that a version script doesn't have the improvement in code 
generation. Gcc will still generate the jumps through a PLT since it doesn't 
know whether the symbol is going to be pruned or not.