Learn how internal architectural changes in the new libabigail 2.2 release allow the framework to support multiple debugging formats in addition to DWARF.
This article describes changes that were made to the Abigail library (Libabigail) application binary interface (ABI) change analysis framework and its associated set of tools in 2018.
This article is for people interested in long-term Linux kernel maintenance. It introduces you to tools that can help keep the binary interfaces between the kernel and its loadable modules stable during the entire lifetime of a supposedly stable kernel, while code is modified.
In 2016, many improvements happened in the ABI static analysis framework that is Libabigail. In this article we'll present how fedabipkgdiff, a new Libabigail tool can help Fedora users, developers and others to analyze ABI changes of libraries carried by packages of the distribution. Introduction As many of you already know, the engine used to build RPM packages in the Fedora build system is named Koji. Thus, one can get Fedora RPMs from Koji using a web browser. In that...
Introduction Detecting and reviewing changes in the application binary interface (aka ABI) of ELF shared libraries has never been easier, notably since the creation of the Abigail project. As you might already know, a tool like abidiff now allows users to analyse the cause of ABI changes and assess their impact on the forward compatibility of the shared library being considered. It is less practical, though, to use that tool on a binary (RPM) package, because it expects individual libraries...
Introduction Since their 4.8 version, the C and C++ compilers of the GNU Co mpiler Collection are equipped with built-in memory and data race errors detectors named Address Sanitizer and Thread Sanitizer. This article intends to quickly walk you through the highlights of these two interesting tools. Spotting common memory access errors ... When instructed to compile a given program, the Address Sanitizer sub-system of GCC emits additional code to instruments the memory accesses performed during the program's execution. Later...
Article
