Re: Symbols/shlibs files for Java

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>]

* Niels Thykier:

> Turns out I cannot think of an example of an ABI breakage in Java that
> is not also an API breakage (in some sense or another).

Generalizing a parameter of a method in a final class to take a base
class of the original parameter type.  Restricting the return parameter
of a method to a derived class.

These are source-compatible changes, but not binary-compatible.

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