Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:51:03 -0500 | From | "Franco \"Sensei\"" <> | Subject | Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > Are you sure you know what you are talking about? > > ABI stability requires API stability [1].
Of course it requires API stability... as I said ``API and data structure stability should be something in mind''. I really meant that API shouldn't change suddenly. And from the moment in which API are stable, still having even different implementations, *then* (not before) probably ABI can be taken in consideration.
> [1] you can break the API without breaking the ABI, but these are > mostly pathological examples
I don't want to even think about an incredible coincidence of having a _working_ ABI with different API... different function calls, different data structures, different behaviors, and still working in binary mode...
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