Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project
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Msg-id 06F75BCE-70DD-4F49-83D0-C035C5267634@justatheory.com
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In response to Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Jul 9, 2025, at 11:33, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> It'd be nice if we could get there, but it'd require annotating *all*
> intentionally exported functions in the backend with PGDLLIMPORT (rather than
> just doing that for variables).  Then we could make some symbols
> *intentionally* not exported, which can improve the code generation (allowing
> more compiler and linker optimizations).

How much effort would that require? Is it simply annotating all such exported functions? Or is the challenge
identifyingthem? 

Best,

David


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