Re: what is the quality of abi-compliance-checker ?

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> Hi,
> i am not able to tell if abi-compliance-checker is serious enough to
> be able to use its results to ensure ABI-compatibility of C++ libs.
> It gives informations like :
> http://www.upstream-tracker.org/versions/v8.html

It's the best tool that I know about.  The problem it reports in
for instance v3.8.0 is very real.  But probably not a real problem
for most applications.  They should have changed their soname for
that, or provided a symbol with the old parameters.


Kurt