[Python-Dev] libpython added to ABI tracker

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 April 2014 00:18, Andrey Ponomarenko <aponomarenko at rosalab.ru> wrote:
>
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the warnings for this one - is there a way for the checker
>> to warn if data structures are exposed directly, rather than as opaque
>> types? It's fine if there isn't, it would just be cool if there was -
>> one of the premises of the stable ABI is that it *doesn't* expose the
>> type definitions directly to consuming code, just the pointers to them
>> (hence allowing the struct size to change without actually breaking
>> compatibility with the defined ABI).
>
>
> The ABI of the library can be dumped by the abi-compliance-checker basic
> tool to a text file in the human readable format, so anyone can analyse it
> in order to find problems of any kind.

Thanks! I've now filed http://bugs.python.org/issue21142 as an RFE -
I'll definitely be looking into setting up a regular run of this to
help us avoid any new issues with managing the evolution of the stable
ABI (and the public ABI in general).

Cheers,
Nick.



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