Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:00:27 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195767 - in head: . cddl/lib cddl/lib/libctf cddl/lib/libdtrace gnu/lib/libdialog gnu/lib/libg2c gnu/lib/libobjc gnu/lib/libreadline gnu/lib/libregex lib lib/libalias/libalias lib/liba... Message-ID: <4e571dd70907210800m451681fdhedb951e4351d8233@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907200951.56551.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200907191725.n6JHPOBe049379@svn.freebsd.org> <200907200951.56551.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:51 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@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
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