[PATCH] Allow to build without exporting symbols

Mike Hommey mh+jemalloc at glandium.org
Thu Nov 8 13:29:58 PST 2012


On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:29:37PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > From: Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>
> > 
> > When statically linking jemalloc, it may be beneficial not to export its
> > symbols if it makes sense, which allows the compiler and the linker to do
> > some further optimizations.
> > ---
> > configure.ac |    7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> > index 1c52439..8558961 100644
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -471,6 +471,13 @@ for stem in ${public_syms}; do
> >   AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([${n}], [${m}])
> > done
> > 
> > +AC_ARG_WITH([export],
> > +  [AS_HELP_STRING([--without-export], [disable exporting jemalloc public APIs])],
> > +  [if test "x$with_export" = "xno"; then
> > +  AC_DEFINE([JEMALLOC_EXPORT],[])]
> > +fi]
> > +)
> > +
> > dnl Do not mangle library-private APIs by default.
> > AC_ARG_WITH([private_namespace],
> >   [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-private-namespace=<prefix>], [Prefix to prepend to all library-private APIs])],
> > -- 
> > 1.7.10.4
> 
> This looks to me like it will cause redefined symbol warnings.  Does it?

Why would it?

Mike



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