Request to change signature of a KUrl method

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2009-09-14, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C++
>
> That page doesn't say _anything_ about changing the return type of
> functions. And from a pure name-mangling-perspective it won't make a
> difference on GCC as it doesn't include the return type in the mangled
> name. (as far as I understood Thiago's blog some time ago).

It does not change the mangled symbol name, but it might very well
trigger weird crashes to change the return type.

old prototype:
QWidget* foo();


Code:
QWidget *w = foo();
w->show();

New function:
void foo();

How should old code be running ?

/Sune