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[Gordon Tetlow]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:51 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I guess specifically I see a disconnect in that in our current policy we
> trust
> developers to know when a change is an ABI change for a library with
> versioned symbols, but we don't trust them to know when a change is an ABI
> change for a library without versioned symbols.  Either we trust developers
> to recognize an ABI change or not.  Whether or not the library has
> versioned
> symbols doesn't change that, and the resulting mess if we get it wrong is
> just as ugly in either case.


 Is there a way to detect ABI changes automatically? Is there some tool that
could be written to detect changes in ABI and throw warnings about in that
case?

Gordon