On Unix platforms with gcc (or compatible), hide non-exported symbols

This changes the Linux behaviour to match the default situation
on Windows: symbols without DBUS_EXPORT or DBUS_PRIVATE_EXPORT
decoration are internal to libdbus-1, and cannot be used by
other programs, even within the dbus source tree.

This means the compiler/linker can optimize calls to those functions
by avoiding indirection through the PLT, which should improve
performance a little. However, the primary purpose of doing this is
that it means developers building libdbus on Linux are considerably
less likely to break it on Windows by mistake.

I'm deliberately not adding -fvisbility=hidden in CMake because the
complexity of doing so is unnecessary: Autotools is the recommended
way to build dbus for Unix, and the one Unix developers are going
to use in practice, unless they are specifically checking that they
haven't broken the CMake build.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83115
Reviewed-by: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

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+# visibility.m4 serial 5 (gettext-0.18.2)
+dnl Copyright (C) 2005, 2008, 2010-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
+dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
+dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
+
+dnl From Bruno Haible.
+
+dnl Tests whether the compiler supports the command-line option
+dnl -fvisibility=hidden and the function and variable attributes
+dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) and
+dnl __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))).
+dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("protected") - which has tricky
+dnl semantics (see the 'vismain' test in glibc) and does not exist e.g. on
+dnl Mac OS X.
+dnl Does *not* test for __visibility__("internal") - which has processor
+dnl dependent semantics.
+dnl Does *not* test for #pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) - which is
+dnl "really only recommended for legacy code".
+dnl Set the variable CFLAG_VISIBILITY.
+dnl Defines and sets the variable HAVE_VISIBILITY.
+
+AC_DEFUN([gl_VISIBILITY],
+[
+  AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
+  CFLAG_VISIBILITY=
+  HAVE_VISIBILITY=0
+  if test -n "$GCC"; then
+    dnl First, check whether -Werror can be added to the command line, or
+    dnl whether it leads to an error because of some other option that the
+    dnl user has put into $CC $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS.
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether the -Werror option is usable])
+    AC_CACHE_VAL([gl_cv_cc_vis_werror], [
+      gl_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
+      AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
+        [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[]], [[]])],
+        [gl_cv_cc_vis_werror=yes],
+        [gl_cv_cc_vis_werror=no])
+      CFLAGS="$gl_save_CFLAGS"])
+    AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_cc_vis_werror])
+    dnl Now check whether visibility declarations are supported.
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([for simple visibility declarations])
+    AC_CACHE_VAL([gl_cv_cc_visibility], [
+      gl_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fvisibility=hidden"
+      dnl We use the option -Werror and a function dummyfunc, because on some
+      dnl platforms (Cygwin 1.7) the use of -fvisibility triggers a warning
+      dnl "visibility attribute not supported in this configuration; ignored"
+      dnl at the first function definition in every compilation unit, and we
+      dnl don't want to use the option in this case.
+      if test $gl_cv_cc_vis_werror = yes; then
+        CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Werror"
+      fi
+      AC_COMPILE_IFELSE(
+        [AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
+           [[extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenvar;
+             extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedvar;
+             extern __attribute__((__visibility__("hidden"))) int hiddenfunc (void);
+             extern __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) int exportedfunc (void);
+             void dummyfunc (void) {}
+           ]],
+           [[]])],
+        [gl_cv_cc_visibility=yes],
+        [gl_cv_cc_visibility=no])
+      CFLAGS="$gl_save_CFLAGS"])
+    AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_cc_visibility])
+    if test $gl_cv_cc_visibility = yes; then
+      CFLAG_VISIBILITY="-fvisibility=hidden"
+      HAVE_VISIBILITY=1
+    fi
+  fi
+  AC_SUBST([CFLAG_VISIBILITY])
+  AC_SUBST([HAVE_VISIBILITY])
+  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([HAVE_VISIBILITY], [$HAVE_VISIBILITY],
+    [Define to 1 or 0, depending whether the compiler supports simple visibility declarations.])
+])