1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 2/*
 3 * When building position independent code with GCC using the -fPIC option,
 4 * (or even the -fPIE one on older versions), it will assume that we are
 5 * building a dynamic object (either a shared library or an executable) that
 6 * may have symbol references that can only be resolved at load time. For a
 7 * variety of reasons (ELF symbol preemption, the CoW footprint of the section
 8 * that is modified by the loader), this results in all references to symbols
 9 * with external linkage to go via entries in the Global Offset Table (GOT),
10 * which carries absolute addresses which need to be fixed up when the
11 * executable image is loaded at an offset which is different from its link
12 * time offset.
13 *
14 * Fortunately, there is a way to inform the compiler that such symbol
15 * references will be satisfied at link time rather than at load time, by
16 * giving them 'hidden' visibility.
17 */
18
19#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)

 1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
 2/*
 3 * When building position independent code with GCC using the -fPIC option,
 4 * (or even the -fPIE one on older versions), it will assume that we are
 5 * building a dynamic object (either a shared library or an executable) that
 6 * may have symbol references that can only be resolved at load time. For a
 7 * variety of reasons (ELF symbol preemption, the CoW footprint of the section
 8 * that is modified by the loader), this results in all references to symbols
 9 * with external linkage to go via entries in the Global Offset Table (GOT),
10 * which carries absolute addresses which need to be fixed up when the
11 * executable image is loaded at an offset which is different from its link
12 * time offset.
13 *
14 * Fortunately, there is a way to inform the compiler that such symbol
15 * references will be satisfied at link time rather than at load time, by
16 * giving them 'hidden' visibility.
17 */
18
19#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)