[Plplot-devel] Treatment of visibility for PLplot

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

The wiki (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility) on visibility for libraries
compiled by gcc, g++, etc., has just been mentioned on the CMake list.  We
already deal with visibility issues for the Windows side of things, but it
looks like this approach will give us an equal benefit on the Linux side of
things. Therefore, I am bringing this link to the attention of the C/C++
experts here.  (I am not a C/C++ expert so I only understand visibility
issues only at the overview level.) From the above link it appears the
benefit might be worth having for the PLplot libraries since the result is
smaller libraries, much faster run-time loading, faster execution, etc.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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