Re: [DynInst_API:] commit: assorted fixes, pre-9.0.4

[Jeff Hollingsworth <hollings@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree, we should not be making API changes in point releases. This 
seems like something for
at least a 9.1 release.   People expect only bugs fixes in the point 
releases.
Jeff

On 10/19/2015 7:22 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 10/19/2015 02:43 PM, Bill Williams wrote:
> > * Shared libraries are now consistent with executables: .o files are
> > modules/mapped_modules, and they are contained in objects/mapped_objects.
> How are dynamic library callbacks working under this?  We talked about
> changing this to report BPatch_object, but you can't really do that
> without breaking API and ABI.
>
> > If you're using BPatch_module, BPatch_object, Symtab::Module, or
> > Symtab::Object on shared libraries, *please* test this out and let me
> > know what interfaces on the object classes should be there and aren't
> > (and whether this change is a horrible backwards compatibility breaker).
> Please don't try to balance horribleness -- just don't break at all
> without exceptional justification.  Looking at the public header
> changes, I don't think there's anything here that can't wait until the
> next soname.  If you're itching badly, bring on 9.1 sooner.
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