Sun C/C++: Reducing symbol scope with Linker Scoping feature

This article was published on Sun developer's portal at: http://developers.sun.com/tools/cc/articles/symbol_scope.html

I have been working on this article for more than 3 months, and glad to learn quite a few new things, from the extensive feedback of Lawrence Crowl and Steve Clamage, of Sun C/C++ compiler team.

Keywords:
Linker Scoping, Global, Symbolic, Hidden, __global, __symbolic, __hidden, __declspec, dllexport, dllimport, xldscope, xldscoperef, linker map files