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Re: ABI Compliance Checker GSoC Project

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>, Mankirat Singh <mankiratsingh1315@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-07-09T15:36:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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 identifying them?

Best,

David