Le 09/11/2010 18:49, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> That is not a problem here. The attr field of hwloc_obj will be NULL,
> that's all, the application won't ever read it anyway.
>
We will see segfaults if applications were looking at machine->attr
without checking that it's non-NULL. It's a bugg
Good; I'll update 1.1 VERSION.
Thanks!
On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Jeff Squyres, le Tue 09 Nov 2010 19:56:17 +0100, a écrit :
>> - install 1.0.2 (or, better: 1.0.3rc)
>> - compile and run a trivial hwloc app against 1.0.x
>> - download and extract 1.1rc2
>> - change VERSI
Jeff Squyres, le Tue 09 Nov 2010 19:56:17 +0100, a écrit :
> - install 1.0.2 (or, better: 1.0.3rc)
> - compile and run a trivial hwloc app against 1.0.x
> - download and extract 1.1rc2
> - change VERSION to be 1:0:1
> - build and install 1.1rc2 over the 1.0.x install
> - run the same trivial hwloc
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> But the object structure has been extended, cache attributes were
>> extended,
>
> Extension is not a problem, provided that offsets are still the same
> (i.e. the old C structure appears first in the new C structure)
>
>> machine attributes
Brice Goglin, le Mon 08 Nov 2010 16:57:44 +0100, a écrit :
> Le 08/11/2010 15:38, Jeff Squyres a écrit :
> > Short version:
> > --
> >
> > I have not looked closely -- I *think* APIs have been added and changed
> > since v1.0. As such, I *think* the libtool .so version number for 1.1
Jeff Squyres, le Mon 08 Nov 2010 15:38:31 +0100, a écrit :
> The last one is what I'm not sure about, but what I'm inferring from Samuel's
> statement about "API breaks".
Actually you can have an API break without an ABI break. Here, old
applications should work fine. They'll just not be able to
Le 08/11/2010 15:38, Jeff Squyres a écrit :
> Short version:
> --
>
> I have not looked closely -- I *think* APIs have been added and changed since
> v1.0. As such, I *think* the libtool .so version number for 1.1 should be
> 1:0:0.
>
I don't think any function behavior changed.
Short version:
--
I have not looked closely -- I *think* APIs have been added and changed since
v1.0. As such, I *think* the libtool .so version number for 1.1 should be
1:0:0.
Can someone verify?
Note that this means that applications linked against hwloc 1.0.x will not be
able
