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Re: RFC on PR77828 and internal units
On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:40:01 -0700
Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:29:25PM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> > Please see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77828
> >
> > The patch I posted clearly breaks ABI in the sense that it renames
> > st_read and st_write to avoid calling a wrong library with the code
> > compiled with Trunk (7.0)
> >
> > Personally I am OK with this because it is a solid line in the sand.
> >
>
> There are a number of PR's that require breaking the
> library's ABI. We've always punted the decision down the
> road, but at some point the ABI is going to get broken.
> I thought that a meta-bug report tracked the ABI breakage
> PR's. A quick scan of bugzilla titles did not have one
> jump out at me.
>
> Personally, I think we should bump the library's major
> version number and start to introduce the long delayed
> PR's.
>
> Of course, I have little to no time to actuall fix
> anything. :)
>
But do you by chance have a list of PRs, that require API version change, you
can point out, even if incomplete?
Then I volunteer to introduce the meta-bug and collect them there.
- Andre
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