Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [..] > Thanks for the test case. I see what is happening. Your class and > its functions are hidden. What is not hidden is the standard library > template functions which your code instantiates. > > Template instantations are a tricky case for visibility. It's > possible to pass template objects from one shared library to another, > so the instantiations all have to be compatible. And they aren't > symbols that you are defining yourself, so it's not clear whether > -fvisibility=hidden should apply to them. So I don't know what the > right behaviour is here. > > To really get what you want--to hide all the symbols, even the > implicit template instantiations--you will need to pass a version > script to the linker. You may also want to consider > -fno-implicit-templates and -fno-implicit-inline-templates, although > then you will have to ensure that some other object instantiates the > required templates. Thanks. I just saw that someone else already done that with ld's -version- script -- Robert Wohlrab
