On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > I've seen Mandrake has started compiling KDE with -fvisibility=hidden. > They say this improve load times considerably. Has this flag other > nasty consequences? It shouldn't, as long as the code is fairly well behaved. We're starting to use this for OpenOffice.org as well, any large C++ app can greatly benefit from this option because the rather un-optimized dynamic linker doesn't have to load and resolve as many symbols at run-time. You should get link-time errors if symbols that aren't explicitly marked visible are needed by some other part of the program. Dan
