From: Alon Bar-Lev <[email protected]>

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se Wed Dec 21 22:52:26 CET 2016:
> The idea of the interface
> 
>   /* null-terminated list of digests implemented by this version of nettle */
>   extern const struct nettle_hash * const nettle_hashes[];
> 
> was that the size of the array isn't part of the ABI; a new Nettle version
> should be able to extend it with more entries, without breaking the ABI.
> 
> However, I've recently learnt that it does break, in a subtle way. (See
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601512 and
> http://trofi.github.io/posts/195-dynamic-linking-ABI-is-hard.html).

Hi,

Any news regarding the ABI breakage?

Thanks,
Alon
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