[Bug default/29568] New: abidiff - misses diffs in highly connected ABI

["gprocida at google dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29568

            Bug ID: 29568
           Summary: abidiff - misses diffs in highly connected ABI
           Product: libabigail
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: default
          Assignee: dodji at redhat dot com
          Reporter: gprocida at google dot com
                CC: libabigail at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 14332
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test case files

Hi Dodji.

While doing some performance tests, I found an abidiff issue (with an older
version of libabigail).

The attached test case includes two XML files which are almost but not quite
identical.

I've written up the reproducible test case as a script (though there is a
chance that type ids won't quite match match what sed expects depending on the
exact build of abidw). In any case you can examine and diff the XML files "by
hand".

abidiff should report a diff but does not. --harmless makes no difference.

I'm not sure if the "connectedness" of the ABIs is significant.

This "old" abidiff performance is fine here, BTW, but current libabigail is
very slow. So you could also use this example for performance testing abidiff.
I don't actually know how long it takes to run as it's still running as I type
this. I suppose it's possible that current libabigail does find the diff... in
which case this is a performance bug instead. I'll follow up if/when it
terminates.

Regards,
Giuliano.

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