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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] binary compatibility of 3.08.3
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:25:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bx4jank.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050113.150239.95895778.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (Jacques Garrigue's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:02:39 -0800 (PST)")

Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> writes:

> Any bug fix in the compiler has a very high probability of breaking
> binary compatibility. This is due to the fact interface digests depend
> on the indices of internal identifiers, so that purely internal
> changes may break compatibility, eventhough the cmi format is left
> unchanged.

Wouldn't it be better if exported names did not have unique numbers
in them?

-- 
   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       qrczak@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-13  7:24 [Caml-list] Bug in Unix library on Mac? spiral voice
2005-01-13 16:53 ` Damien Doligez
2005-01-13 18:41   ` binary compatibility of 3.08.3 Stefano Zacchiroli
2005-01-13 23:02     ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2005-01-14 13:36       ` Sven Luther
2005-01-14 15:01         ` Yaron Minsky
2005-01-16 13:25           ` Sven Luther
2005-01-16 13:33             ` Berke Durak
2005-01-16 14:31               ` Sven Luther
2005-01-17  5:52             ` William Lovas
2005-01-15 12:07         ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-16 13:37           ` Sven Luther
2005-01-16 16:26             ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-01-16 18:23               ` Sven Luther
2005-01-20  5:53                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-01-20  8:59                   ` Sven Luther
2005-01-16 21:08             ` Damien Doligez
2005-01-16 22:27               ` Sven Luther
2005-01-14 15:25       ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2005-01-27 15:40       ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-01-30  6:11         ` Sven Luther
2005-01-30 11:12           ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-01-30 15:28           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-31  7:09             ` Sven Luther

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