Binary compatibility report for the GNU FriBidi library between 0.10.5 and 0.10.7 versions on x86

Test Info

Library Name	GNU FriBidi
Version #1	0.10.5
Version #2	0.10.7
CPU Type	x86
GCC Version	4.6.1

Test Results

Total Header Files	13
Total Shared Libraries	1
Total Symbols / Types	61 / 31
Verdict	Incompatible (0.8%)

Problem Summary

	Severity	Count
Added Symbols	-	0
Removed Symbols	High	0
Problems with Data Types	High	0
	Medium	0
	Low	0
Problems with Symbols	High	0
	Medium	2
	Low	1
Problems with Constants	Low	0

Problems with Symbols, Medium Severity (2)

	Change	Effect
1	The pointer level of return value has been decreased from 1 to 0.	Applications may try to access unallocated memory by the dereferencing of new return value and therefore cause a crash.
2	This global data became const.	Any attempts of old applications to change this global data may result in crash.

fribidi_types.h, libfribidi.so.0.0.0
[+] fribidi_prop_to_type [data] (2)

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Problems with Symbols, Low Severity (1)

	Change	Effect
1	Type of 1st parameter name has been changed from char* to char const*.	Replacement of parameter data type may indicate a change in its semantic meaning.

fribidi_mem.h, libfribidi.so.0.0.0
[+] fribidi_mem_chunk_new ( char* name, int atom_size, unsigned long area_size, int type ) (1)

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Header Files (13)

fribidi.h
fribidi_char_sets.h
fribidi_char_sets_cap_rtl.h
fribidi_char_sets_cp1255.h
fribidi_char_sets_cp1256.h
fribidi_char_sets_isiri_3342.h
fribidi_char_sets_iso8859_6.h
fribidi_char_sets_iso8859_8.h
fribidi_char_sets_utf8.h
fribidi_config.h
fribidi_mem.h
fribidi_types.h
fribidi_unicode.h

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Shared Libraries (1)

libfribidi.so.0.0.0

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