[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH 05/47] Mark strings as const where appropriate.

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Oct 30 16:09:43 CET 2014


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:02:33PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 29 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote :
> > -LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT dvdcss_t dvdcss_open  ( char *psz_target );
> > +LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT dvdcss_t dvdcss_open  ( const char *psz_target );
> 
> Isn't that an API/ABI break?

It shouldn't be.  ABI should not change at all as no position or size of
a symbol is affected.  API-wise there might be fresh warnings, but all
code should remain compatible.

Diego


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