Hey, On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com> wrote: > that's basically what I did in xmlBuf . But I broke the ABI more > frankly by making the xmlBuf private, as I prefer to have the code > fixed when people recompile. Those buffers were not supposed to be > accessed that way, but people did, they didn't get the supposedly > uneeded accessors, those are available now, it's better to clean things > up for good an not rely on the old buffer for input and output on > newly compiled apps (old buffers are still available for generic > purposes though). So to be clear, i was proposing leaving the structure public, but embedding the structure in a private structure. Since you're referring the the structure via a pointer, you can point into the middle of the private structure. Users of the api could then access the public size field, but it wouldn't be the *real* size field, just an int sized truncated copy of the size field. The real size field would be out of view a bytes before where the pointer points (or after the structure block).
Anyway, sounds like it's water under the bridge now and people have coped, so maybe not worth persuing. --Ray _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
