Mike Stump wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
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>> I've asked this question twice at gcc-help, but got no response.

>> On which platforms is the -fvisibility option supported?

> autoconf will answer this question for you, please use it.

Do you mean I should run autoconf on each platform where GCC is available to get an answer? I'm sure you don't think this is a practical suggestion, which leaves me wondering what you really mean.

> Giving  you an answer strikes me as dangerous.

Why?

> If you tell us what the real  question is, maybe we can answer that one.

First tell me what your real answer is.

> ELF, darwin would be my approximate answer, if you had to have one.

You don't have to have one. But a non-answer is worse than no answer.

>> The GCC docs here (http://tinyurl.com/99wc8) suggest that it is a subset of ELF platforms. Is that correct?
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> No.  It also works on darwin, darwin is not an ELF platform.

Then the documentation is seriously misleading.

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