disable global visibility override hack (vis.h) by default

neither current compilers nor linkers treat protected visibility the
way I expected, as having fixed source-level semantics rather than
being dependent on target-specific ABI details, and change seems
unlikely. while the use here does not actually depend on the specific
semantics, at least some versions of some linkers, especially lld,
refuse to allow linking to a libc.so where the symbols have protected
visibility. this cannot be detected at configure-time because linking
libc.so itself works fine, and because even if we could test linking
an application against libc.so successfully, we could not justifiably
assume that the same linker used to link libc.so would also be used
later to link applications.

disable the vis.h hack by default at the configure level, but add an
explicit "auto" option to request the old configure-time detection
rather than just removing it. this leaves it easy to evaluate whether
it actually resulted in significant size or performance benefits while
ensuring that out-of-the-box builds are not unlinkable for some users.

fortunately, preliminary evaluation suggests that at least x86_64,
arm, and aarch64 don't suffer at all from the change, and impact on
other archs is low. if low is not low enough, it should not be hard to
analyze where the significant PLT call ABI costs are present and
mitigate them without the hack.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 539c9fcbe6271919fbddc112d5b9fe42dfb89390..02b736cee3d5c17587b4a4a39af55faea9b214cc 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Optional features:
   --enable-optimize=...   optimize listed components for speed over size [auto]
   --enable-debug          build with debugging information [disabled]
   --enable-warnings       build with recommended warnings flags [disabled]
-  --enable-visibility     use global visibility options to optimize PIC [auto]
+  --enable-visibility     use global visibility options to optimize PIC [no]
   --enable-wrapper=...    build given musl toolchain wrapper [auto]
   --disable-shared        inhibit building shared library [enabled]
   --disable-static        inhibit building static library [enabled]
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ target=
 optimize=auto
 debug=no
 warnings=no
-visibility=auto
+visibility=no
 shared=auto
 static=yes
 wrapper=auto
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ case "$arg" in
 --disable-debug|--enable-debug=no) debug=no ;;
 --enable-warnings|--enable-warnings=yes) warnings=yes ;;
 --disable-warnings|--enable-warnings=no) warnings=no ;;
+--enable-visibility=auto) visibility=auto ;;
 --enable-visibility|--enable-visibility=yes) visibility=yes ;;
 --disable-visibility|--enable-visibility=no) visibility=no ;;
 --enable-wrapper|--enable-wrapper=yes) wrapper=detect ;;