On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 09:05:42 UTC, []() {}() wrote:
Once you refactor your class (creating actual private member
variables and creating getter/setter methods, you are almost
certainly going to break binary compatability, and when you
send your update compiler library to your customer, there code
will stop working - cause they'll have to recompile it against
the new library.
I think you are speaking about shipping dynamic library to users.
I think compiler authors can clarify whether introducing
getters/setters breaks ABI or not. On the other side if it breaks
then it can be easily checked: create simple program that uses
dynamic library, then change the latter to use getters/setters
and run program again without recompiling.
