[lldb-dev] A few questions about SWIG and interface compatibility

[jingham at apple.com]

> On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> 
> First, do we require a minimum version of SWIG?  I think the answer to this is currently no.  My next question is whether we can require 3.0?  It was released close to a year ago, so it should be fairly stable.  SWIG 3.0 contains some bugfixes that are useful for generating correct wrappers on Windows, especially with typedefs.
> 
> My second question is about our interface guarantees.  Are we guaranteeing interface compatibility at the C++ level, or only at the wrapped level?  i.e. is it ok to change the signature of a C++ method as long as SWIG can ultimately generate a wrapper that behaves identically?

At the C++ level.  We have clients (e.g. Xcode) that use the C++ API's directly.

Jim


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