Libabigail is a new infrastructure for semantic analysis of ELF binaries containing C or C++ programs that has emerged lately. It powers command line tools like ‘abidiff’, which let users compare ABI changes between two different versions of a given ELF binary by...
The ABI, the layer that joins the kernel and userspace is quite a mess. Various different interfaces, lacking documentation, and constant changes make it hard for anyone who uses the kernel to know that they can expect from the kernel when their userspace...
Operating system distributors often face challenges that are somewhat different from that of upstream kernel developers. For instance, some kernel updates often need to stay at least binary compatible with modules that might be “out of tree” for some time. In that...
