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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" /> <meta name="inputfile" content="<standard input>" /> <meta name="outputfile" content="<standard output>" /> - <meta name="created" content="Sun Dec 9 20:30:11 2007" /> + <meta name="created" content="Sun Dec 9 20:45:16 2007" /> <meta name="generator" content="Pod::Xhtml 1.57" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://res.tst.eu/pod.css"/></head> <body> @@ -187,13 +187,15 @@ you actually want to know.</p> <dt>int ev_version_major ()</dt> <dt>int ev_version_minor ()</dt> <dd> - <p>You can find out the major and minor version numbers of the library + <p>You can find out the major and minor API/ABI version numbers of the library you linked against by calling the functions <code>ev_version_major</code> and <code>ev_version_minor</code>. If you want, you can compare against the global symbols <code>EV_VERSION_MAJOR</code> and <code>EV_VERSION_MINOR</code>, which specify the version of the library your program was compiled against.</p> + <p>These version numbers refer to the API and ABI version of the library, not +the release version.</p> <p>Usually, it's a good idea to terminate if the major versions mismatch, -as this indicates an incompatible change. Minor versions are usually +as this indicates an incompatible change. Minor versions are usually compatible to older versions, so a larger minor version alone is usually not a problem.</p> <p>Example: Make sure we haven't accidentally been linked against the wrong |