Monthly Archives: April 2016

Doing things that scale

Posted on April 23, 2016 by swilmet

In the software world, and with internet, we can do a lot of things that scale. Answering a user question on IRC doesn’t scale, only one person and a few lurkers will benefit from it. Answering a user question on … Continue reading →

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API vs ABI

Posted on April 23, 2016 by swilmet

I repeatedly see other people doing the mistake, so a little reminder doesn’t hurt. API: Application Programming Interface ABI: Application Binary Interface The difference can be easily explained by knowing what to do for some code when the API or … Continue reading →

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Libtool convenience library to unit test private functions

Posted on April 17, 2016 by swilmet

Only the public API of a library is exported, so when a program is dynamically linked to the DSO (Dynamic Shared Object), it can only use the public functions. So how do you unit test the private classes of your … Continue reading →

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