[libc++] Make __num_get_float hidden

[smeenai]

Summary

It's an internal function and shouldn't be exported. It's also a source
of discrepancy in the published ABI list; these symbols aren't exported
for me on CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04, leading to spurious check-cxx-abilist
failures.

[smeenai]

I'm having some second thoughts about this. Visibility for template functions makes my head spin :/ Is there a general policy we've been following for these? I didn't find much just scanning through other definitions.

[EricWF]

In D27153#606296, @smeenai wrote:

I'm having some second thoughts about this. Visibility for template functions makes my head spin :/ Is there a general policy we've been following for these? I didn't find much just scanning through other definitions.

I would suggest adding the inline keyword so that implicit instantiation are marked hidden when -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. That should be sufficient to hide the implicit instantiations in libc++.so.

[smeenai]

In D27153#613140, @EricWF wrote:

In D27153#606296, @smeenai wrote:

I'm having some second thoughts about this. Visibility for template functions makes my head spin :/ Is there a general policy we've been following for these? I didn't find much just scanning through other definitions.

I would suggest adding the inline keyword so that implicit instantiation are marked hidden when -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. That should be sufficient to hide the implicit instantiations in libc++.so.

I thought about that as well. It's slightly less intrusive, since it would only change the visibility for clients using -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. It also seems like a more roundabout way of going about hiding these symbols though, and we definitely don't want the compiler using the inline as a hint to actually perform inlining for this particular function (from what I understand, inline is mostly ignored as far as inlining goes, but it might have some effect on the compiler's cost models or something).

I feel like, if the goal is to have these symbols hidden (and I think they should be), annotating the visibility explicitly is a better approach than marking as inline. What are your thoughts on that?

[smeenai]

Pinging above question.

[smeenai]

Ping.

[EricWF]

LGTM.

libcxx/trunk/include/locale

 
 template <>
 inline _LIBCPP_INLINE_VISIBILITY
 long double __do_strtod<long double>(const char* __a, char** __p2) {
     return strtold_l(__a, __p2, _LIBCPP_GET_C_LOCALE);
 }
 
 template <class _Tp>
+_LIBCPP_HIDDEN
 _Tp
 __num_get_float(const char* __a, const char* __a_end, ios_base::iostate& __err)
 {
     if (__a != __a_end)
     {
         typename remove_reference<decltype(errno)>::type __save_errno = errno;
         errno = 0;
         char *__p2;

libcxx/trunk/lib/abi/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.abilist

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