Re: [Plplot-devel] PLStream struct and backward compatibility

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:36:00PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> A question for the C experts around: if I add a member at the end of the 
> PLStream struct, would I break backward compatibility?
> 
> [N.B.: sorry if this is obvious for the most of you, but by backward
> compatibility I mean the fact that programs compiled for a previous version
> of PLplot will run when linked against the new version of the library with a
> changed PLStream.]

I can't see that this should cause any problems. Surely the user should 
never be using the internal PLStream structure anyway? If they do then
they should expect things to break between library versions.

Andrew