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| author | Andrey Ponomarenko <aponomarenko@rosalab.ru> | 2015-08-13 20:14:50 +0300 |
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+<div id="container"> + +<h1>ABI Compliance<br/>Checker: History</h1> +<p/> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.99.9 (January 23, 2014)</b><br/> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -skip-internal: do not check internal interfaces matched by the pattern + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed duplicated entries in the XML report + </li> + <li> + Reduced size of the XML report + </li> + <li> + Fixed duplicated problems related to changed size of a global data + </li> + <li> + Options -v1 and -v2 can now be used when comparing ABI dumps to change library versions shown in the report + </li> + <li> + Fixed false positives with the size change of a template instance type + </li> + <li> + Fixed false positives with the change of a parameter/field type name + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.99.8.5 (October 03, 2013)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Optimized performance and memory usage (up to 90%) on input objects with a huge number of changes and deep data type trees (e.g. Linux kernel) + </li> + <li> + Partial support for GCC 4.8.{0-1}, waiting for a fix for the bug <a href='http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57850'>57850</a> in the next GCC versions + </li> + <li> + Support for incomplete ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -affected-limit + </li> + <li> + -cpp-incompatible + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed identification of template constructors and destructors + </li> + <li> + Do not show "this" first argument of methods in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected descriptions of affected symbols in the report + </li> + <li> + Fixed false alarms on changed offset of parameters + </li> + <li> + Do not hang on class A<N>:public A<N-1> + </li> + <li> + Corrected identification of header files in the include_preamble + </li> + <li> + Corrected comparison of function pointer types + </li> + <li> + Corrected rule Global_Data_Size + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Code refactoring + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.99.7 (July 01, 2013)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added missed fields of template instance types to the ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Added Struct_Field_Size_Increased rule + </li> + <li> + Support for vector types (GCC extension) + </li> + <li> + Removed duplicates from the ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Corrected visualization of v-table content in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected identification of target headers + </li> + <li> + Corrected source-compatibility check + </li> + <li> + Performance optimization (5%) + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -check - to check completeness of the ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed default arguments of methods (broken in 1.99.1 due to added "this" parameter) + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended test suite + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.99.1 (June 07, 2013)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for ABI Dumper 0.97 + </li> + <li> + Show added/removed inline virtual functions in the binary compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Added "this" hidden parameter to non-static class methods in the ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed XmlDump module + </li> + <li> + Fixed CallConv module + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for old ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.99 (May 24, 2013)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for ABI Dumper 0.95 + </li> + <li> + Added 14 binary-compatibility rules + </li> + <li> + Added 10 source-compatibility rules + </li> + <li> + Improved model of type alignment + </li> + <li> + Changed version of ABI dump format to 3.0 + </li> + <li> + Added _vptr member to virtual classes + </li> + <li> + Added constants defined by GCC to ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Improved analysis of constants + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -skip-symbols + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Increased severity of Field_Became_Non_Mutable rule + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Extended test suite (+11 test cases) + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.8 (February 07, 2013)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Show added and removed constants (#defines) in the report + </li> + <li> + Show changes in unnamed enumerations + </li> + <li> + Avoid false alarm about renamed field if old name of this field is defined to new (SC) + </li> + <li> + Recursive comparing of structured data types in *_Format rules + </li> + <li> + Added Typedef_BaseType_Format rule to check format changes in the typedef base type + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -tolerant + </li> + <li> + -tolerance + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Increased severity of Parameter_BaseType_And_Size BC rule (Low to Medium) + </li> + <li> + Increased severity of Added_Field SC rule (Safe to Low) + </li> + <li> + Corrected handling of the tool error codes in the test suite + </li> + <li> + Corrected handling of relative paths in the descriptor options + </li> + <li> + Skipping linker-related options in gcc_options option of the descriptor + </li> + <li> + Corrected internal mangler for C++ functions + </li> + <li> + Corrected conditions for enabling of C++ compatibility mode + </li> + <li> + Corrected handling of C++ keywords in C-code + </li> + <li> + Corrected -extended option + </li> + <li> + Corrected Typedef_BaseType rule + </li> + <li> + Corrected parsing of default function arguments + </li> + <li> + Do not check presence of archive utilities if not used + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended test suite + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.7 (December 14, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended extra info dumped by -extra-info option + </li> + <li> + Extended additional info dumped by -extra-dump option + </li> + <li> + Added specifiers for structs, unions and enums in the report and ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected -debug option + </li> + <li> + Corrected creating of archives with ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Corrected parsing of includes in header files + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of undefined symbols + </li> + <li> + Corrected -app option + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of default paths to system libraries + </li> + <li> + Corrected Makefile + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Code cleaning and refactoring + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.6 (December 04, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended -extra-info and -extra-dump options + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected processing of input XML descriptor + </li> + <li> + Corrected "Parameter_Default_Value_Removed" rule + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.5 (November 30, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for Mac OS X 10.8 + </li> + <li> + Support for OpenBSD + </li> + <li> + Support for old GCC versions <= 4.2 + </li> + <li> + Added "throw" and "weak" attributes of methods to ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -extra-info + </li> + <li> + -extra-dump + </li> + <li> + -force + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected order of user-defined include paths + </li> + <li> + Corrected internal C++ mangler + </li> + <li> + Removed false positives of the "Parameter_Type_Format" rule + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended test suite + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> + <li> + Docs cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.4 (October 18, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Optimization of memory usage (5%-10%) and performance (5%-10%) + </li> + <li> + Added "Used Reserved Field" rule of binary compatibility analysis + </li> + <li> + Improved design of the operating system compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Added meta descriptors for 334 libraries + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed an issue with diagnostics of added virtual functions + </li> + <li> + Corrected the list of functions affected by the compatibility problem + </li> + <li> + Avoid false alarm about removed function if this function became macro (SC) + </li> + <li> + Corrected parser of C header files + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended test suite + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.3 (July 19, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Implemented a model of calling conventions on x86 and x86_64 + </li> + <li> + Improved diagnostics of changes in function parameters and return value (distribution on registers and stack) + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected parser of C++ header files to detect non-member functions inside namespaces + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added requirement for Ctags (5.8 or newer) + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.2 (June 26, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Support for reading ABI dumps in XML format + </li> + <li> + Automatic enabling of c++0x support if needed to compile headers + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected XML and Perl (default) formats of ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Improved -dump-system option + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved documentation + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.1 (June 18, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Removed symbols marked as LOCAL in a shared library from lists of added/removed symbols in source-compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Fixed a false positive with some removed extern "C" symbols in source-compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Fixed a bug with removed debug/ directory when using -use-dumps and -debug options together + </li> + <li> + Added support for "skip_including" section of target system XML descriptors (modules/Targets) used by -dump-system option + </li> + <li> + Extended XML ABI dumps by size attribute of library symbols + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.98.0 (June 14, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Implemented XML format of ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -dump-format + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.97.8 (June 08, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Redesigned format of ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Optimization of memory usage (5%-10%) and performance (5%-10%) + </li> + <li> + Improved support for GCC 4.0-4.5 + </li> + <li> + Added "add_namespaces" section of the XML descriptor + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -open + </li> + <li> + -sort + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Fixed a bug with auto-detection of include paths when comparing two XML descriptors + </li> + <li> + Corrected output of -debug option + </li> + <li> + Corrected -dump-system and -cmp-systems options + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.97.5 (May 14, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended ABI dumps by source-level type declarations + </li> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Optimization of memory usage (20%-30%) and performance (10%-20%) + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected auto-detection of a set of target headers to check/dump in -headers-only mode + </li> + <li> + Other fixes + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Extended regression test suite + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.97.4 (April 16, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added 16 new binary-compatibility rules + </li> + <li> + Added 17 new source-compatibility rules + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added some missed typedef types to function signatures + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Support for GCC 4.7 + </li> + <li> + Extended regression test suite + </li> + <li> + Code cleaning + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.97.3 (April 03, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Completed Tasks</b> +<ul> + <li> + Implement source-level compatibility checks + </li> + <li> + Implement 2.0 architecture + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -browse=PROG option + </li> + <li> + Added -xml alias option for --report-format=xml + </li> + <li> + Added -binary option to generate binary-compatibility report only + </li> + <li> + Added -source option to generate source-compatibility report only + </li> + <li> + Added -bin-report-path option: path to binary-compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Added -src-report-path option: path to source-compatibility report + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved debug mode (-debug) + </li> + <li> + Improved mark-up of the HTML report + </li> + <li> + Improved mark-up of the HTML report + </li> + <li> + Improved support for old ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.96.8 (February 17, 2012)</b><br/> +<b>Completed Tasks</b> +<ul> + <li> + Implement XML format of compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Testing on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan Beta2 + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added hidden statistics line to compatibility report for operating systems + </li> + <li> + Added -headers-list option + </li> + <li> + Added -lang option + </li> + <li> + Support for symbolic links in /usr/include and /usr/lib + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_include_paths" section of the XML-descriptor + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_including" section of the XML-descriptor + </li> + <li> + Added -list-affected option to create plain list of incompatible symbols + </li> + <li> + Added -quiet option to print all errors and warnings to the log file instead of stderr and stdout + </li> + <li> + Added -stdout option to print results to stdout + </li> + <li> + Added an option to check binary compatibility in the extended sense + </li> + <li> + Improve diagnostic messages for added base classes with virtual functions + </li> + <li> + Added -update option to installer + </li> + <li> + Added a relative default directory to locate modules after installation + </li> + <li> + Compatibility rate = (high+1/2*medium+1/4*low) / number of symbols + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Some symbols with extern "C" linkage are missed in -headers-only mode + </li> + <li> + Changes in global data are not detected under Windows + </li> + <li> + False negative: change global data to be "const" + </li> + <li> + Removed middle enumeration value is reported as renamed + </li> + <li> + False positive: change parameter type from "const int" to "int" + </li> + <li> + Support for old ABI dump format of ACC 1.21.6 + </li> + <li> + The tool doesn't search for included headers in /usr/lib/qt4/include/ + </li> + <li> + False Negative: Header is incompatible with itself + </li> + <li> + Check libstdc++ in -headers-only mode + </li> + <li> + Restrict checked header files in the -headers-only mode + </li> + <li> + Problem with mangled C++ functions using old ABI dump formats in -headers-only mode + </li> + <li> + Incorrect size of method pointer in ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + False negative: add/remove "register" modifier of the parameter + </li> + <li> + Incorrect WORD size when using old ABI dump format + </li> + <li> + Conflict of a static method with a function of the same name in the ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Missed right bracket of "func-ptr" type in HTML report + </li> + <li> + Incorrect report for overridden methods + </li> + <li> + False negative: override a virtual that doesn't come from a primary base + </li> + <li> + False negative: change a function parameter to be "restrict" + </li> + <li> + False negative: change a field to be "volatile" + </li> + <li> + False negative: change "const"-ness of a return value + </li> + <li> + False negative: change "volatile" attribute of a method + </li> + <li> + False positive: removed symbols with inline virtual prototype in the leaf class with default constructor + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.94 (September 09, 2011)</b><br/> +<b>Completed Tasks</b> +<ul> + <li> + Separated regression tests into the module + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added Makefile.pl installer + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.93.8 (September 08, 2011)</b><br/> +<b>Completed Tasks</b> +<ul> + <li> + Separated rules DB + </li> + <li> + Testing on Symbian SDK + </li> + <li> + Testing on Windows SDK + </li> + <li> + Support for OS3000 + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + SONAME change in the OS comparison table + </li> + <li> + Added a compatibility percentage to the OS comparison table + </li> + <li> + Added -debug option + </li> + <li> + Added listing of symbols in OS comparison table + </li> + <li> + Use zip format of dumps in Windows + </li> + <li> + Added -dump-system descriptor.xml option + </li> + <li> + Analysis of static libraries + </li> + <li> + Added -sysinfo option + </li> + <li> + Added -component option + </li> + <li> + Added -nostdinc option + </li> + <li> + Added "weakly"- and "almost"-compatible verdicts + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_namespaces" section of the library XML-descriptor + </li> + <li> + Search for modules/ directory in the system + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Missed typedefs in the ABI dump using GCC 4.4.1 + </li> + <li> + False negative: change enum member value from zero to non-zero + </li> + <li> + False negative: interchange the positions of two fields in a structure + </li> + <li> + False positive: add a field instead of padding fields + </li> + <li> + Problems with "copied" classes + </li> + <li> + Changes in "private" fields + </li> + <li> + Illegal modulus zero at abi-compliance-checker.pl + </li> + <li> + Incorrect order of include paths + </li> + <li> + Change constness of a class method + </li> + <li> + False negative: change "struct Type" to "union Type" + </li> + <li> + Change parameter type from "..." to "int" + </li> + <li> + Remove/add "const"-qualifier of a method + </li> + <li> + False negative: renamed parameters + </li> +</ul> +<b>Other</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved debug mode + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.23.5 (July 01, 2011)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected exit codes: 0 - compatible, 1 - incompatible, 2 - error, ... + </li> + <li> + Corrected diagnostic messages for C++ functions with changed signature + </li> + <li> + Fixed regression with C++ non-member functions + </li> + <li> + Removed false positive with overridden private methods + </li> + <li> + Corrected functionality for checking binary compatibility of operating systems + </li> + <li> + Removed false positive for removed default version of a symbol + </li> + <li> + Adapted -dump-system option for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan + </li> + <li> + Fixed hanging execution on "#include "../../file.h" + </li> + <li> + Fixed incorrect automatic include paths + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.23 (June 07, 2011)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added 42 compatibility checks (total: 83) + </li> + <li> + Improved diagnostics of compatibility problems + </li> + <li> + Opened an issue tracker + </li> + <li> + Support for cross-compilers + </li> + <li> + Ported to Mac OS X (10.5) and MS Windows (Xp, Vista, 7) + </li> + <li> + Added a viewer of "real" v-table layouts for changed C++ classes + </li> + <li> + Added functionality to check OS backward compatibility + </li> + <li> + Supports for old-version dump formats (>=1.18) + </li> + <li> + Separated versioning of dump formats + </li> + <li> + Improved design of the compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Improved performance + </li> + <li> + Support for old GCC 3.4.4 + </li> +</ul> +<b>New Options</b> +<ul> + <li> + -cross-gcc: support for cross-compilers + </li> + <li> + -sysroot: specify the alternative system root directory + </li> + <li> + -dump-system, -cmp-systems: checking OS backward compatibility + </li> + <li> + -use-dumps: check for compatibility using the intermediate dumping + </li> + <li> + -show-retval: show symbol's return value type in the report + </li> + <li> + -old-dumps: support for old-version dumps + </li> + <li> + -test-dump: test for dumping functionality + </li> + <li> + -report-path: change the location of output compatibility report + </li> + <li> + -dump-path: change the location of output ABI dump + </li> + <li> + -log1-path, -log2-path: change the location of output logs + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Reduced false positives + </li> + <li> + Support for C-headers containing C++ keywords + </li> + <li> + Corrected automatic include paths for headers + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.21.12 (April 29, 2011)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected automatic detection of include paths for header files + </li> + <li> + Removed false positives with overridden virtual functions + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of typedef type names, fixed potential program hangup + </li> + <li> + Added some missed problems relating to the return type changes of a function + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of a translation unit dump generated by modern GCC versions + </li> + <li> + Corrected identifying of inline functions (using the -fkeep-inline-functions GCC option) + </li> + <li> + Corrected parser for C++: analysis of const global data and functions inside a namespace + </li> + <li> + Corrected names and v-table checks for template types + </li> + <li> + Corrected checks for changes in enumerations + </li> + <li> + Corrected ABI dumping and sorting of dumps + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of added/removed virtual functions + </li> + <li> + Corrected help message and documentation + </li> + <li> + Documentation has been moved to "doc/" subdirectory + </li> + <li> + Using File::Temp for storing temporary files + </li> + <li> + Support for latest GCC 4.6.0 and old GCC v3.x series + </li> + <li> + Fixed infinite loop finding the path for "which" command in the system + </li> + <li> + Corrected distinction of descriptor kinds (headers, libraries, directories and XML-descriptors) + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of "include_paths" section of the XML-descriptor + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.21 (August 19, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -check-implementation option: compare disassembled binary code to detect changes in the interface implementation + </li> + <li> + Added -objects-only option: compare shared objects without header files + </li> + <li> + Added -v1 and -v2 options: specify version number outside the descriptor + </li> + <li> + Improved help message + </li> + <li> + Improved performance of the tool + </li> + <li> + Removed template instances and stdc++ interfaces from the report (C++) + </li> + <li> + Added README.html and CHANGES.html to the package + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected ABI compatibility report + </li> + <li> + Corrected interface names and versions in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected number of problems in report summary + </li> + <li> + Corrected ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.20 (August 30, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added "defines" section of the library descriptor: this section allows to add defines at the headers compiling stage + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected reports about added/withdrawn members in the structure types and added/withdrawn parameters + </li> + <li> + Corrected report about added/withdrawn virtual functions if -headers_only option specified + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of header paths containing special characters + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.19 (July 22, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -library_full_name option to display full library name in title of the report + </li> + <li> + Added -relpath option to replace the {RELPATH} in the descriptor for ABI dumping + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_libs" section of the library descriptor: this section contains a list of shared objects and/or directories with shared objects that should not be processed + </li> + <li> + Improved performance on big libraries + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Removed duplicated problems from the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected names of the template instances + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of reference type changes + </li> + <li> + Corrected titles in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected size of some array types + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of added/withdrawn members in the structure types with reserved members + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.18 (June 25, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -relpath1 and -relpath2 options to replace the {RELPATH} in the descriptors; old option -relpath was removed + </li> + <li> + Added "add_include_paths" section of the library descriptor: this section contains a list of include paths that should be added to the automatically detected include paths + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added some previously missed compatibility problems in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected techniques for auto-detection of header file dependencies (include paths) + </li> + <li> + Removed problems relating to the changes in the temporary header files + </li> + <li> + Corrected interface signatures in the report + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters + </li> + <li> + Corrected changes in the virtual tables of the libraries with symbol versioning + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of complex namespaces changes (C++) + </li> + <li> + Added namespaces information to the ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.17.2 (June 16, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed -separately option + </li> + <li> + Corrected permissions of LICENSE file + </li> + <li> + Corrected tool description + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.17.1 (June 09, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -relpath option for adding prefixes to the paths in the library descriptor + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of mixed C/C++ header sets + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of parameter type changes + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.17 (June 08, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Visualizing of the serious changes (added/withdrawn parameters) in the interface signature + </li> + <li> + Recursive analysis of constant changes + </li> + <li> + Separated stderr and stdout streams of the tool + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_constants" section of the library descriptor to skip checking of some constants + </li> + <li> + Added -params option to add function parameter names to the report + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected analysis of virtual table layout changes + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of parameter type changes + </li> + <li> + Corrected complex array type names + </li> + <li> + Corrected typedef names + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of structure layout changes + </li> + <li> + Fixed tool hanging on some C++ headers (with many namespaces) + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of Glibc headers + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of library language changes (if added some C++ headers) + </li> + <li> + Corrected descriptions of some compatibility problems + </li> + <li> + Corrected analysis of added/withdrawn parameters in C headers + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.16 (May 05, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -strict option for treating all compatibility warnings as problems + </li> + <li> + Added -dumpversion option for printing tool version and don't do anything else + </li> + <li> + Ignoring hidden .svn, .git, .bzr, .hg, and CVS directories + </li> + <li> + Improved header files sorting for protecting from compilation errors on the intermediate phase of temporary header file compilation + </li> + <li> + Improved techniques for auto-detection of header file dependencies (include paths) + </li> + <li> + Ignoring problems related to changes of constants (defines) describing library version (*_VERSION_*, *_COPYRIGHT_* and other) + </li> + <li> + New internal test cases + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Checking of some previously missed C++ namespaces + </li> + <li> + Removed hidden "void const** __vtt_parm" parameters from signatures of some constructors + </li> + <li> + Corrected dumping of C++ classes ABI + </li> + <li> + Corrected checking of pure virtual destructors + </li> + <li> + Removed unnecessary built-in constants from the ABI dump + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.15 (March 26, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + The license was changed to dual GNU GPL and LGPL + </li> + <li> + Added "skip_headers" section of the library descriptor + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected processing of "include_paths" section of the library descriptor + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of relative paths in the "headers" and "include_paths" sections of the descriptor + </li> + <li> + Directory with temporary files renamed from "temp" to hidden ".tmp_dir" + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of shared object dependencies + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of some previously missed functions and conversion operators in C++ + </li> + <li> + Corrected internal test suite + </li> + <li> + Corrected some error messages + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.14 (March 03, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added techniques to auto-detect dependencies of a header file (include paths); providing of "include_paths" section of the descriptor is not necessary for now + </li> + <li> + Ported to FreeBSD and Haiku + </li> + <li> + Added check for gcc/g++ version (>=3.0.0) + </li> + <li> + Added sorting of interface problems by namespace in the report (C++) + </li> + <li> + Improved internal test suite + </li> + <li> + Added log for describing tool actions and occurred errors + </li> + <li> + Added exit error code (high/medium risk for ABI break) + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected ABI dumping + </li> + <li> + Corrected styles of the report + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.13 (February 16, 2010)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -version option + </li> + +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected processing of tab characters in the descriptor + </li> + <li> + Corrected help message + </li> + <li> + Corrected descriptor template structure + </li> + <li> + Corrected error and warning messages + </li> + <li> + Corrected processing of shared object dependencies + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.12 (December 04, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + New help message + </li> + <li> + Highlighting of [in-charge], [not-in-charge] constructors and destructors in the report was improved + </li> + <li> + New option -time for enabling time measurements + </li> + <li> + New internal test cases + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected classification of compatibility problems in the report + </li> + <li> + Reduced priority of problems related to changes in a method's object + </li> + <li> + Corrected complex template type names + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.11 (November 10, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added -app option to check portability of applications to the new library version + </li> + <li> + Memory usage decreased twice + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected checking of added middle structure members + </li> + <li> + Corrected names of template types (with intrinsic, bool and string parameters) + </li> + <li> + Corrected highlighting of function signatures in the report + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.10 (November 02, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Checking added/dropped function parameters (C language only) + </li> + <li> + Improved design of the report + </li> + <li> + New internal test cases + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Incorrect checking of redefined virtual functions and differences in parameter types + </li> + <li> + More careful checking of withdrawn interfaces using shared library dependencies + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.9 (October 12, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Improved design of ABI compliance report + </li> + <li> + Improved algorithms of checking parameter/field type change + </li> + <li> + New internal test cases + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Fixed incorrect names of typedefs and function pointer types + </li> + <li> + Checking of some previously missed C++ functions + </li> + <li> + Removed some false positives from the report (for anon-types) + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.8 (September 29, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added ability to specify a file with a list of interfaces that should be checked + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Size of ABI info dumps have been reduced through removing of unnecessary information + </li> + <li> + Incorrect names of template instances and function pointer types + </li> + <li> + Incorrect positions of function parameters in the "Interface Problems" section of the report + </li> + <li> + Removed some false positives from the report + </li> + <li> + Incorrect handling of special symbols in the paths to header files and shared objects + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.7 (September 11, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>New Features</b> +<ul> + <li> + Checking of incorrect symbols versioning + </li> + <li> + Checking the values of defines (constants) + </li> + <li> + Ability to check header files without shared objects; It is easy to run, but may provide a low quality report with a lot of false positives and without detecting of added/withdrawn interfaces + </li> + <li> + Number of checked interfaces and data types in the report + </li> + <li> + Added tests for checking new features + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Incorrect processing of duplicated headers in the input set (headers with the same name but different paths) + </li> + <li> + Incorrect header files include order + </li> + <li> + Sorting in the ABI dumps + </li> + <li> + Incorrect processing of redefined virtual methods + </li> + <li> + Incorrect processing of anon types + </li> + <li> + Absence of some necessary information about C++ functions in the ABI dumps + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.6 (August 31, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Corrected processing of relative paths in the library descriptor + </li> + <li> + Display machine hardware name instead of processor type in the report + </li> + <li> + Fixed grammar/spelling errors + </li> + <li> + Renamed "internal_interfaces" section of the library descriptor to "skip_interfaces" + </li> + <li> + Cosmetic changes in the code + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.5 (August 25, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Absent information about opaque types and internal interfaces has been added to the ABI dump + </li> + <li> + Fixed style of the report + </li> + <li> + Fixed grammar/spelling + </li> + <li> + Renamed "internal_functions" section of the library descriptor to "internal_interfaces" + </li> + <li> + Renamed outptu ABI dump to "*.abi.tar.gz" (previously it was "*.info.tar.gz") + </li> + <li> + Corrected interface names in the report (for -separately option) + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.4 (August 18, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Added ability to check ABI compliance of library versions located on different machines + </li> + <li> + Header files checking mode by default has been changed: checking all header files together instead of separate checking + </li> +</ul> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Incorrect description for affected interfaces + </li> + <li> + Incorrect virtual table checking + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.3 (August 14, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Bug Fixes</b> +<ul> + <li> + Incorrect number of binary compatibility problems in the report summary + </li> + <li> + Incorrect design of problem descriptions in the report + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.1 (August 06, 2009)</b><br/> +<b>Improvements</b> +<ul> + <li> + Design of the report has been greatly improved + </li> +</ul> +<br/> + +<b>Version 1.0 (July 31, 2009)</b><br/> +Initial version of the tool. + +<div class="footer"> + get the source code on GitHub : <a href="https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker">lvc/abi-compliance-checker</a> +</div> + +<br/> +<br/> + +</div> +</body> +</html> |