From kde-core-devel  Tue Apr 30 19:55:54 2002
From: Michael Ritzert <kde () ritzert ! de>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:55:54 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Peace of mind about binary compatibility!
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Hi Roberto,

Am Dienstag, 30. April 2002 21:37 schrieb Roberto Alsina:
> Please tell me I am just being paranoid ;-)
> Is there any automatized test to check binry compatibility between CVS
> versions (like doing nm dumps of the libraries)?

If a diff of
	nm --size-sort -C /3/KDE/kde/lib/libkdecore.so | grep ' vtable for '
for two versions is different there is a BIC change.

However this doesn't come even close to finding all BIC changes, only the most 
grave ones where virtual members were added or removed.

Regards,
Michael