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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

>> True again.  It is hard to be "more friendly" without actually
>> generating a diff ;-).
>
> I thought generating diffs was fairly cheap...

Probably.  But we currently do not do diff generation
internally, so the comparison is "now doing diff with N lines of
code" vs "having 0 lines of code to do diff".

> ... I give it a function name to search for and want to
> know when the calling semantics changed for that function.

"Calling semantics" meaning "function signature"?