[Python-Dev] Need help with C - problem in sqlite3 module

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Jeremy Kloth schrieb:
> GCC's symbol visibility is supposed to address this exact problem.  It would 
> be nice if -fvisibility=hidden was used to build Python (and its extensions) 
> by default on supported platforms/compilers.  It shouldn't be much of an 
> issue wrt. exported symbols as they already need to be tracked for Windows 
> where symbols are hidden by default (unlike traditional *nix).

Of course, this doesn't help on systems where gcc isn't used. So for
Python itself, we should always look for a solution that works across
compilers.

Regards,
Martin