Re: When to bump library api version (current)

[Adam Mercer]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 23:36, Daniel Herring <address@hidden> wrote:

Daniel

> ISTM that this is not an ABI change; the addition of const only affects the
> code being called, and in a manner compatible with the non-const version
> (assuming calling code did not expect this parameter to be changed).

This was my thinking as well, I just wanted to double check as I don't
want to have an incompatible library api bump unless I really need
one.

> That said, C++ compilers do change the name mangling based on constness; so
> the above argument depends on your code being plain C.

This code is plain C. Although code written in C++ will link against
this library but AFAIK that won't be an issue?

Cheers

Adam