-fvisibility=hidden

[Sean Middleditch]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:16 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've seen Mandrake has started compiling KDE with -fvisibility=hidden. 
>They say this improve load times considerably. Has this flag other 
>nasty consequences?

Check this out, covers in detail the pros/cons of that flag, as well as
other issues.  The paper concentrates on shared libraries, but is
applicable to general app link time issues as well.

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf


>
>Thanks.
>
-- 
Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>