From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 21:12:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59360106564A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4DC8FC15 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0VKvXhl089209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0VKvXNh023377 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q0VKvXZN023376; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: d@delphij.net Message-ID: <20120131205732.GA5775@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4F2848C3.2090606@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F2848C3.2090606@delphij.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.2 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:35 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing to make sure there is no ABI change X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:12:56 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 31), Xin Li said: > Is there a better way to test if there is a breaking ABI change than > eye inspection for a C library? The devel/abi-compliance-checker port might do what you want. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com