Re: ABI changes in libaspell

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, bbhtt wrote:

> We recently changed the way how we build the GCC compiler for i686 ie. we 
> added the following build options to GCC `--with-cpu=pentium4, 
> --with-tune=generic
> --with-fpmath=sse`.
>
> That change seems to have caused an ABI change in `libaspell.so.15`, as shown
> below. The ABI diff report is generated using libabigail [1].
>
> ...
>
> It be great to know if this `get_cache_data` actually public API supposed to 
> be consumed by downstream libraries depending on libaspell or something 
> internally used by libaspell only.

Applications should only use the public C API so this should not break 
anything.  The Aspell binary itself uses the internal C++ API so it might need 
to be recompiled.

Kevin