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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdelibs/kio/kfile
From:       Harri Porten <porten () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2002-12-27 16:52:39
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:

> > - make KFileTreeBranch::findTVIByURL() public
> 
> That breaks compatibility, unfortunately.  According to Matthias Ettrich on 
> developer.kde.org, compilers are free to mangle access into symbol names.  

This is true (and I know at least one compiler that does it) but I don't
think this is an issue for compilers used for KDE. Otherwise all those
#define private public hacks we had wouldn't have worked.

Harri.


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