From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Internal visibility Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 23:32:09 +0200 Message-ID: <878wxv5t7q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k5i5d6ei.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87y76ksglg.fsf@gnu.org> <8763tomqn7.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87lk2jhp0h.fsf@gnu.org> <87skwrce8y.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87iqxledzz.fsf@gnu.org> <87lk2futg0.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fxslr1jr.fsf_-_@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211923959 16964 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2008 21:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:39 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 23:33:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K16nB-00016K-8y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K16mQ-00046T-1y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K16mM-000427-Ln for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K16mL-0003x5-0H for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45232 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K16mK-0003we-Aa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57213 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K16mJ-0006Fo-Re for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K16mG-0003Ey-VL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:16 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:16 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 21:32:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 9 Prairial an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IW9KjU3zHrRJC1ftmWOaLzqc2Ms= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7276 Archived-At: Hi, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Your enthusiasm gave me an incentive to go ahead and try it out (see > attached patch against `master'). This brings the number of exported > `scm_i_' symbols (as seen with "objdump -T") down from 195 to 68 here, > which should slightly reduce load time since it gives less work to the > loader. The patch also marks the `scm_init' functions as internal. It > uses "internal" visibility, not just "hidden" (see "Function Attributes" > node of the GCC manual). > > A few functions had to be left public: those used in public macros or > inlines, some functions of `numbers.c' that are used in `srfi-60', and > `scm_i_string_{writable_,}chars ()' functions which have been used > outside (e.g., in G-Wrap, IIRC) as they're too convenient... > > I know Guile-VM uses a few internal functions/macros, so Andy will have > to check whether this breaks anything (and propose a new public API if > it does :-)). It would be great to double-check with other code that > uses Guile. Then if that looks acceptable, we can commit it, including > to the 1.8 branch. I'd like to push the patch within the next few days if nobody complains, alright? Thanks, Ludovic.