you're right...its friday... ;-)
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:21 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Steve> Uh, won't that break binary compatibility? Or is that not
> Steve> a requirement? IE: If you make the ibv_* names #defines,
> Steve> then all apps will have to recompile to use the new lib.
> Steve> If you leave them as the real names, then apps can still
> Steve> link to the new lib and run ok...i think...
>
> I don't think the names of structures matters for ABI compatibility --
> if I have a header with
>
> struct foo {
> int a;
> int b;
> };
>
> void blah(struct foo *z);
>
> then a binary compiled against that will still work even if I later
> change the name of struct foo so I have:
>
> stuct bar {
> int c;
> int d;
> };
>
> void blah(struct bar *z);
>
> after all the layout of struct foo and struct bar are the same.
>
> - R.
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