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kmidiff and abidiff do filter out added symbols (vars, functions and symbols without debug info) by default when dealing with kernel binaries. The reason for this is that the ABI could be considered compatible and not broken when adding symbols. In practice, this is confusing as there is no possibility for a symmetric comparison (i.e. a deleted function when comparing left to right is an added function when comparing right to left). Furthermore, there is no option available to actually report these added symbols. I thought of adding an option to report added symbols, but in the end came to the conclusion that we should behave consistent across the various ways you can diff an ABI with abidiff and kmidiff and should not change default behaviour for a particular type of binary. Hence, remove the default behaviour of filtering out added symbols when comparing kernel binaries. To restore the current behaviour, the user needs to parametrize with the tools with --no-added-syms --no-unreferenced-symbols. Adjusted test cases accordingly and add a new test that covers the old behaviour new available with additional flags to abidiff. * tools/abidiff.cc (adjust_diff_context_for_kmidiff): Drop default suppression of added symbols. * tools/kmidiff.cc (set_diff_context): Likewise. * tests/data/test-diff-suppr/test46-PR25128-report-1.txt: Adjust test expectation. * tests/data/test-diff-suppr/test46-PR25128-report-2.txt: Add test case for abidiff with flag --no-added-syms. * tests/data/Makefile.am: add new testcase. Reviewed-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> |
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This is the Application Binary Interface Generic Analysis and Instrumentation Library. It aims at constructing, manipulating, serializing and de-serializing ABI-relevant artifacts. The set of artifacts that we are intersted is made of quantities like types, variable, fonctions and declarations of a given library or program. For a given library or program this set of quantities is called an ABI corpus. This library aims at (among other things) providing a way to compare two ABI Corpora (apparently the plural of corpus is copora, heh, that's cool), provide detailed information about their differences, and help build tools to infer interesting conclusions about these differences. You are welcome to contribute to this project after reading the files CONTRIBUTING and COMMIT-LOG-GUIDELINES files in the source tree. Communicating with the maintainers of this project -- including sending patches to be include to the source code -- happens via email at libabigail@sourceware.org.