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There's a link in those header files that refers to the GCC wiki: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility

As far as I know the macro's defined in these files help in determining when a function (or class / struct) should be internal or external when generating a (shared) library. When getting started, you can safely ignore these macro's.

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