Summary:
Patch from a series of patches to rename EAPI symbols to specific
library DSOs.
= The Rationale =
This patch is from a series of patches to rename EAPI symbols to
specific library DSOs.
EAPI was designed to be able to pass
`__attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))` for symbols with
GCC, which would mean that even if -fvisibility=hidden was used
when compiling the library, the needed symbols would get exported.
MSVC __almost__ works like GCC (or mingw) in which you can
declare everything as export and it will just work (slower, but
it will work). But there's a caveat: global variables will not
work the same way for MSVC, but works for mingw and GCC.
For global variables (as opposed to functions), MSVC requires
correct DSO visibility for MSVC: instead of declaring a symbol as
export for everything, you need to declare it as import when
importing from another DSO and export when defining it locally.
With current EAPI definitions, we get the following example
working in mingw and MSVC (observe it doesn't define any global
variables as exported symbols).
Example 1:
dll1:
```
EAPI void foo(void);
EAPI void bar()
{
foo();
}
```
dll2:
```
EAPI void foo()
{
printf ("foo\n");
}
```
This works fine with API defined as __declspec(dllexport) in both
cases and for gcc defining as
`__atttribute__((visibility("default")))`.
However, the following:
Example 2:
dll1:
```
EAPI extern int foo;
EAPI void foobar(void);
EAPI void bar()
{
foo = 5;
foobar();
}
```
dll2:
```
EAPI int foo = 0;
EAPI void foobar()
{
printf ("foo %d\n", foo);
}
```
This will work on mingw but will not work for MSVC. And that's why
LIBAPI is the only solution that works for MSVC.
Co-authored-by: João Paulo Taylor Ienczak Zanette <jpaulotiz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Lucas Cavalcante de Sousa <lucks.sousa@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ricardo Campos <ricardo.campos@expertise.dev>
Reviewers: jptiz, lucas, vtorri, woohyun
Reviewed By: jptiz, lucas, vtorri
Subscribers: cedric, #reviewers, #committers
Tags: #efl
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D12203
we can't sensibly use things like massif to track memory if we bypass
itr with mmaping -1 fd anonymous memory... so if built with valgrind
support and running under valgrind, use malloc/calloc and free so
these tools actually do something useful for these bits of memory.
In C we need this to make clear that we really do not accept parameters.
Found by the smatch source code matcher. I had run and fixed this before
but it seems to creep in again over time.
It has been discussed on the ML (thread: "[RFC] rename efl_self") and
IRC, and has been decided we should rename it to this in order to avoid
confusion with the already established meaning of self which is very
similar to what we were using it for, but didn't have complete overlap.
Kudos to Marcel Hollerbach for initiating the discussion and
fighting for it until he convinced a significant mass. :)
This commit breaks API, and depending on compiler potentially ABI.
@feature
The current eo_add uses a (very useful) gcc extension that is only
available in gcc compatible compilers (e.g clang). Until this commit we
just temporarily ignored this fact. This adds a fallback implementation that
can be used interchangeably with the non portable one. This means that the
same binary can call either at any point in time and the code will work.
Breaks ABI.
Felipe Magno de Almeida
Carsten Haitzler
Stefan Schmidt
Jean-Philippe Andre
Tom Hacohen