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[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think some of those abominational constructs were for compile-time errors. Inline visibility macro is for reducing bynary size, allowing additional optimizations and improving performance and load time.

In my projects I set default visibility to hidden.