Binary incompat Fridays?

Alexander Neundorf alexander.neundorf at gmx.net
Fri Feb 7 15:53:48 GMT 2003


On Friday 07 February 2003 11:46, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:38 pm, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
...
> >
> > no, it's not bic according to our definition. we do some
> > "#define private public" trickery with some qt headers to access
> > internal data, so things would be really broken if any of our target
> > compilers mangled the permissions.
>
> ? I'm rather confused now:
>
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/devel-binaryc
>ompatibility.html: "You cannot ... change the access rights to some
> functions, for example from private to public. With some compilers, this
> information may be part of the signature"

Hmm, the last time I asked I got an OK for changing a function from protected 
to public...

Nobody complained until now.

Bye
Alex






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