linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 15/27] compiler: Option to default to hidden symbols

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Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:12:59 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...omium.org>
Cc:     kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, kristen@...ux.intel.com,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 15/27] compiler: Option to default to hidden symbols

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:22AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Provide an option to default visibility to hidden except for key
> symbols.

It took me a while to figure out the verb in this sentence...  :P

It's weird that we're annotating things to be default.  What visibility
are they we leave off the annotation?

regards,
dan carpenter