On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:28 am, Eduardo Pérez wrote: > On 2005-05-14 15:27:26 +0000, Eduardo Pérez wrote: > > I was wondering if openssl-0.9.8 is going to be API/ABI compatible > > with the current stable branch of openssl-0.9.7 > > I think keeping API/ABI compatible is a good idea and makes programmer > > and users life easier. > > Anyway, if you are not going to keep API/ABI compatibility in > > openssl-0.9.8 with 0.9.7 I'd like to hear the reasoning behind that. > > I made a diff of the symbols in libssl and libcrypto in openssl 0.9.7 > and 0.9.8 and found that libssl didn't remove any symbols from the > previous version and therefore may be backwards compatible if none of > the older symbols changed ABI/API
symbol name means nothing if it expects the arguments passed to it are of different sizes see the fun people had in upgrading from 0.9.7e to 0.9.7[fg] on x86_64 linux -mike ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
