Emmanuele Bassi 34aeeb7d64 Add flexible API version boundaries ... There are cases when it should be possible to define at compile time what range of functions and types should be used, in order to get, or restrict, the compiler warnings for deprecated or newly added types or functions. For instance, if GLib introduces a deprecation warning on a type in version 2.32, application code can decide to specify the minimum and maximum boundary of the used API to be 2.30; when compiling against a new version of GLib, this would produce the following results: - all deprecations introduced prior to 2.32 would emit compiler warnings when used by the application code; - all deprecations introduced in 2.32 would not emit compiler warnings when used by the application code; - all new symbols introduced in 2.32 would emit a compiler warning. Using this scheme it should be possible to have fairly complex situations, like the following one: assuming that an application is compiled with: GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED = GLIB_VERSION_2_30 GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED = GLIB_VERSION_2_32 and a GLib header containing: void function_A (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_26; void function_B (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_28; void function_C (void) GLIB_DEPRECATED_IN_2_30; void function_D (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_32; void function_E (void) GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_34; any application code using the above functions will get the following compiler warnings: function_A: deprecated symbol warning function_B: deprecated symbol warning function_C: no warning function_D: no warning function_E: undefined symbol warning This means that it should be possible to gradually port code towards non-deprecated API gradually, on a per-release basis. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670542		2012-02-26 23:58:41 -05:00
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reference	Add flexible API version boundaries	2012-02-26 23:58:41 -05:00
debugging.txt	Remove references to gruntime. This includes renaming the test program	2002-02-26 21:23:52 +00:00
macros.txt	honour g_mem_gc_friendly settings when freeing slices, make sure	2006-01-25 15:51:43 +00:00
Makefile.am	initialize automake variables EXTRA_DIST and TEST_PROGS for unconditional	2007-11-21 20:09:46 +00:00