Binary compatibility report for the gdbm library between 1.10 and 1.11 versions on x86

Test Info

Library Name	gdbm
Version #1	1.10
Version #2	1.11
CPU Type	x86
GCC Version	4.6.1

Test Results

Total Header Files	1
Total Shared Libraries	1
Total Symbols / Types	20 / 19
Verdict	Incompatible (2.5%)

Problem Summary

	Severity	Count
Added Symbols	-	7
Removed Symbols	High	0
Problems with Data Types	High	0
	Medium	0
	Low	0
Problems with Symbols	High	0
	Medium	1
	Low	0
Problems with Constants	Low	1
Other Changes in Constants	-	7

Added Symbols (7)

gdbm.h, libgdbm.so.4.0.0
gdbm_count ( GDBM_FILE dbf, gdbm_count_t* pcount )
gdbm_dump ( GDBM_FILE p1, char const* p2, int fmt, int open_flags, int mode )
gdbm_dump_to_file ( GDBM_FILE p1, FILE* p2, int fmt )
gdbm_export_to_file ( GDBM_FILE dbf, FILE* fp )
gdbm_import_from_file ( GDBM_FILE dbf, FILE* fp, int flag )
gdbm_load ( GDBM_FILE* p1, char const* p2, int replace, int meta_flags, unsigned long* line )
gdbm_load_from_file ( GDBM_FILE* p1, FILE* p2, int replace, int meta_flags, unsigned long* line )

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Problems with Symbols, Medium Severity (1)

	Change	Effect
1	Size of this global data has been changed from 104 bytes to 116 bytes.	Applications will obtain a different value and execution may change.

gdbm.h, libgdbm.so.4.0.0
[+] gdbm_errlist [data] (1)

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Problems with Constants, Low Severity (1)

	Change	Effect
1	The value of constant _GDBM_MAX_ERRNO has been changed from 25 to 28.	Applications will pass an old value of this constant as the parameter to the new-version library functions, that expect a new one. This may result in crash of incorrect behavior of applications.

gdbm.h
[+] _GDBM_MAX_ERRNO

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Other Changes in Constants (7)

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_DUMP_FMT_ASCII with value 1 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_DUMP_FMT_BINARY with value 0 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_ERR_FILE_MODE with value 28 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_ERR_FILE_OWNER with value 27 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_META_MASK_MODE with value 0x01 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_META_MASK_OWNER with value 0x02 has been added.	No effect.

	Change	Effect
1	The constant GDBM_NO_DBNAME with value 26 has been added.	No effect.

gdbm.h
[+] GDBM_DUMP_FMT_ASCII
[+] GDBM_DUMP_FMT_BINARY
[+] GDBM_ERR_FILE_MODE
[+] GDBM_ERR_FILE_OWNER
[+] GDBM_META_MASK_MODE
[+] GDBM_META_MASK_OWNER
[+] GDBM_NO_DBNAME

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Header Files (1)

gdbm.h

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Shared Libraries (1)

libgdbm.so.4.0.0

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