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On 12/01/2016 05:13 AM, Don Zickus wrote:

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> I think GregKH pointed to one such tool, libabigail?  We are working on
> others too.

I should mention one of the others here:
https://github.com/skozina/kabi-dw

It's quite comparable to libabigail in the way it works, the main 
differences are:
  - written in pure C
  - depends only on elf-utils and flex/yacc
  - it's much simpler (4k LOC)
  - stores the type information in the text files and compares those 
instead of directly comparing two sets of DWARF data

Regards,
-Stanislav