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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-08-11 19:59:34 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-08-11 19:59:34 +0300
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Merge pull request #3831 from mesonbuild/symvisibility
Add gnu_symbol_visibility keyword argument
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+## Keyword argument for GNU symbol visibility
+
+Build targets got a new keyword, `symbol_visibility` that controls how
+symbols are exported from shared libraries. This is most commonly used
+to hide implementation symbols like this:
+
+```meson
+shared_library('mylib', ...
+ gnu_symbol_visibility: 'hidden')
+```
+
+In this case only symbols explicitly marked as visible in the source
+files get exported.