Summary:
Patch 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
EAPI is the only solution that worked for MSVC.
Co-authored-by: João Paulo Taylor Ienczak Zanette <jpaulotiz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ricardo Campos <ricardo.campos@expertise.dev>
Co-authored-by: Lucas Cavalcante de Sousa <lucks.sousa@gmail.com>
Reviewers: jptiz, lucas, woohyun, vtorri, raster
Reviewed By: jptiz, lucas, vtorri
Subscribers: ProhtMeyhet, cedric, #reviewers, #committers
Tags: #efl
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D12188
The api name free_return wasnt a good choice so it is changed to
release. This also moves the implementation to binbuf template so it is
available in all buf types.
Some code needs to read directly into eina_binbuf to avoid an extra
copy from eina_binbuf_append* variants.
This can be achieved by using eina_binbuf_expand(), which returns a
write-able slice of the spare bytes. Once they are used,
eina_binbuf_use() should be called to increment "buf->len", which is
used by all other binbuf functions such as eina_binbuf_length_get() or
eina_binbuf_append_slice().
It is sometime useful to start from a defined buffer, but to not touch it
until needed. This make life of caller more easier as they don't need to
duplicate the buffer themself as Eina will now take care of that.
Felipe Magno de Almeida
Marcel Hollerbach
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Cedric BAIL
Vincent Torri