[Development] Using ACC (abicc) together with the header reviews

Giuseppe D'Angelo giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com
Tue Nov 12 16:34:10 CET 2013


Hello,

I've stumbled upon the ABI compliance checker [1], a small tool that 
checks API/ABI issues across two versions of the same library. It seems 
to generate sensible reports, so perhaps we should think of using it 
together with the header reviews. Here's an example of running it on 
QtWidgets 5.1.1 vs 5.2.0:

http://www.kdab.com/~peppe/qtwidgets_5.1.1_5.2.0_compat_report.html

Of course, not everything it notices is a real problem (changes in 
private APIs are totally fine, etc.).

[1] http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker

HTH,
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