Subject: Re: [boost] questions regarding visibility and b2
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-30 21:56:30
On 27.10.18 19:29, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> I've got a few questions about the "visibility" changes for boost.
>
> My understanding is that "visibility" for gcc and clang are "sort of the
> same thing" as dll import and export are for windows.
>
I also thought the same, but there are differences.
You may read more about this here:
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/190#issuecomment-423766391
In particular for boost.test, I ended up with 2 singletons (funny) as
the implementation of the singleton was visible to the client code:
This alone was enough to instanciate a singleton in the client code in
addition to the one in the boost.test code.
Hope this helps,
Raffi