Re: [VOLK] Release 2.5.1

Cursory glance at `git diff v2.5.0..v2.51 **/**.h` tells me you didn't change anything
ABI-wise.

Cheers,
Marcus

On 14.02.22 13:38, Johannes Demel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while I did not run the ABI compliance checker to compare 2.5.0 vs 2.5.1 specifically, it
> is simple and can be done with this tool:
> https://lvc.github.io/abi-compliance-checker/#ABI_Dumper
> So far, we were able to keep the ABI compatible across VOLK 2.x.
> Also, we didn't change any function signatures of existing functions.
>
> It might be a worthwhile undertaking to add an ABI compliance checker to our CI.
>
> The VOLK library is written in C. Here, we rely on C11. Also, we require cpu_features
> because detecting such features across systems and architectures is terribly difficult.
>
> Then, the questions are: Why Boost, why C++17 at all?
> We use tools around our library. The volk_profile utility and our tests are written in
> C++. Here, we need to write the profile results to a file. In the past, we used
> `boost::filesystem` to achieve this. `boost::filesystem` basically became part of C++17
> with `std::filesystem`. Thus, we use `std::filesystem` now.
>
> Cheers
> Johannes
>
> On 13.02.22 12:08, Jeff Long wrote:
>> Fons - filesystem is used for the volk_profile utility.
>>
>> Chris - do not assume ABI compatibility. A number of small things have changed in ".h"
>> files.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 6:19 PM Chris Vine <vine24683579@gmail.com
>> <mailto:vine24683579@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:40:26 +0100
>>     Johannes Demel <demel@ant.uni-bremen.de
>>     <mailto:demel@ant.uni-bremen.de>> wrote:
>>      > Hi everyone!
>>      >
>>      > You can find the news at
>>     https://www.libvolk.org/release-v251.html
>>     <https://www.libvolk.org/release-v251.html> as well.
>>      >
>>      > We have a new VOLK release! We are happy to announce VOLK v2.5.1! We
>>      > want to thank all contributors. This release wouldn't have been
>>     possible
>>      > without them.
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Is this ABI compatible with volk-2.5.0 (or put another way, if I
>>     upgrade from volk-2.5.0 will I need to recompile gnuradio)?
>>
>>     Chris
>>
>