"Simon L. Nielsen" <[email protected]> writes: > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward > compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x, but a 7.2 > binary might not run on 7.0. It should be more or less the same with > the API's. > > PS. do note that there is no 100% guarantee.
Correct, but we're getting closer to that now that we have symbol versioning - although we won't reach 100% until we have versioned symbols in *all* libraries, which is currently not the case. Even then, a developer might break the ABI by mistake, but hopefully we'd catch that before it made it into a release. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
