On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 14:27, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 19:47:47 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> I notice, though, that above links only mention API, not ABI. Is it >> safe to expect library ABI (runtime linkage) to be frozen too if its API >> (compile time interface) is? > > Generally speaking, yes. > > (well, unless there are toolchain changes, etc. - very unlikely at this > stage of squeeze)
Not really. Reordering of enums, for example, could break ABI while keeping API compatibility. Same with adding/reordering struct members. Not relally common, but can happen. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
