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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] xenomai-forge: Interface change of copperplate_init
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To: Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@gmail.com>
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On 03/08/2013 04:03 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On 03/08/2013 03:16 PM, Ronny Meeus wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I see that the interface of copperplate_init has been changed from:
>>
>> void copperplate_init(int argc, char *const argv[]);
>> to
>> void copperplate_init(int *argcp, char *const **argvp);
>>
>> This is disturbing if I have an application that needs to be run on
>> the 2 versions of xenomai.
>> Is there any construction (for example a define) I can use in my code
>> to call this function in a correct way?
>>
>
> Nope, and don't expect any. The -forge interface is still in a state of
> flux, albeit dust has settled a lot since it was all started. There
> won't be any effort toward backward compat until 3.x is officially out.
> No ETA.
>
>

If you happen to use autoconf, then you could run AC_TRY_COMPILE to 
figure out which syntax is the right one, and define a config symbol you 
could test in your code accordingly.

-- 
Philippe.