Bug#536570: gcc-4.3: Redeclaration with different visibility isn't spotted when using -fvisibility=hidden

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:00:58PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > When using -fvisibility=hidden to define the global visibility to hidden,
> > declaring a function with the global visibility, then redeclaring it
> > with visibility default results in the symbol being exported.
> 
> Pleas rered the documentation. It stats:
> 
> |     "default"
> |           Default visibility is the normal case for the object file
> |           format.  This value is available for the visibility attribute
> |           to override other options that may change the assumed
> |           visibility of entities.
> 

Please reread the whole bug report.

Mike