Matthew Palmer writes: > Consider a function int s(int, int) -- you can have two ABI-compatible > versions of this, one that adds it's arguments and one that multiplies > them. ABI compatible, but different results. And different APIs. Is that really a serious risk? > ...who's to say that some program isn't relying on the former (buggy) > operation of the library? How could the program do that without being buggy itself? -- John Hasler