[swift-dev] swift (ABI) and Windows

[Jordan Rose]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 11:31, Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com <mailto:jordan_rose at apple.com>> wrote:
> Hey, Saleem. How do you expect this to differ from normal symbol visibility? It seems to me that in a shared library, any public symbol is either exported or imported, depending on whether it has a definition, and any non-public symbol is default. (Unlike C, we expect to have sensible rules here.) I guess there's the difference between "a public symbol from elsewhere in this library" and "a public symbol from some other library". Is that it?
> 
> Well, there are four cases to consider:
> - externally available: imported
> - defined (and available for others): exported
> - defined (statically): default -- won't even show up, so this is a no-op
> - defined (non-statically defined for internal use): default
> 
> The thing is that there is no modeling for internal symbols which other shared objects can use.  The closest thing you can do is anonymize the symbol (so you don't have a name that you can call it by, but you have an integral ID).

What is an "internal symbol which other shared objects can use"? That sounds like a self-contradiction.

Jordan
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