On 3 April 2014 00:18, Andrey Ponomarenko <aponomare...@rosalab.ru> wrote: > > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> Regarding the warnings for this one - is there a way for the checker >> to warn if data structures are exposed directly, rather than as opaque >> types? It's fine if there isn't, it would just be cool if there was - >> one of the premises of the stable ABI is that it *doesn't* expose the >> type definitions directly to consuming code, just the pointers to them >> (hence allowing the struct size to change without actually breaking >> compatibility with the defined ABI). > > > The ABI of the library can be dumped by the abi-compliance-checker basic > tool to a text file in the human readable format, so anyone can analyse it > in order to find problems of any kind.
Thanks! I've now filed http://bugs.python.org/issue21142 as an RFE - I'll definitely be looking into setting up a regular run of this to help us avoid any new issues with managing the evolution of the stable ABI (and the public ABI in general). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
