[pacman-dev] [PATCH] use the default visibility attribute when debugging is enabled, i.e. all symbols will be visible

[Barbu Paul - Gheorghe]

On 08/01/2012 09:03 PM, Dan McGee wrote:

> Why would we want to do this? This could lead to a situation where one
> makes a production build and breaks an application because a symbol
> that was available during development disappears.

Well, I tought that this would come in handy when debugging, because one can set 
break points at the and in the "private" functions too (of course they aren't 
private now that -fvisibility will be default if debugging is enabled).

I needed this when trying to understand how parts of libalpm worked and had to 
break at a "public" function then carefully use "next" and "step" in gdb to 
reach the desired point.

Concerning the release vs the development build ... the programmer coudl always 
run the tests in order to see if something went wrong.

This is the reasoning behind the patch, sorry for my lack of communication, I'll 
be careful in the future.


Have a nice day!

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