[Development] abi breakage for qtwebengine libraries in 5.9

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Mon May 8 10:52:13 CEST 2017


On Monday 08 May 2017, Lars Knoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why can't we just keep these symbols around without exporting them through
> a header file and make them simply forward to the global new/delete
> operators? If we don't export them in a header at least newly compiled
> code would stop using them, and old code would continue working like that.
> 
They were never exported through a header file. They were just marked exported 
and then picked up by the linker when it looked for new/delete definitions.

`Allan



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