Archive for May, 2009

More on link-time backwards compatibility

Posted by ehuntley on May 4th, 2009 filed in Programming/Development

I want to address the problem with not understanding linker behavior as I mentioned a couple entries ago.
If one doesn’t understand linker behavior and link-time compatibility issues, seemingly harmless edits can lead to incompatibilities with existing libraries and dll’s. This is a particular concern with externally accessible public headers or functions existing in shared libraries, [...]

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