_mp_alloc vs ALLOC

Torbjorn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Sun Jun 3 21:33:24 CEST 2012


Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:

  Naive question:
  are there many ABIs where adding a return type breaks compatibility?

Probably few.  But it breaks source code compatibility, if it is called
via a typed function pointer.  Our own tests/mpz/reuse.c would need
modifications...

-- 
Torbjörn


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