Re: [d-i] libdebian-installer2

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

[ Old mail, yes, I know; but I'm going through my unread -boot mail ]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:19, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> You can add members at the end of struct if and only if 
> any other application does not try to malloc it.
> 
> Otherwise, interface probably needs to be bumped up.

Another approach commonly taken is to add dummy members to the end of
the struct, and then you can fill them in later if you need to.  That
way you don't break binary compatibility.