From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@cavium.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add comments to check-c++-types.sh
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201612081627.uB8GRTxO016049@sellcey-lt.caveonetworks.com> (raw)
I would like to add some comments to scripts/check-c++-types.sh to make
it more obvious what it is doing. Does this text look OK?
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@caviumnetworks.com
2016-12-08 Steve Ellcey <sellcey@caviumnetworks.com>
* scripts/check-c++-types.sh: Add comments.
diff --git a/scripts/check-c++-types.sh b/scripts/check-c++-types.sh
index 489c4f0..f82ffff 100755
--- a/scripts/check-c++-types.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-c++-types.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# This script creates a list of data types where each type is followed
+# by the C++ mangled name for that type. That list is then compared
+# against the list in the c++-types.data file for the platform being
+# checked. Any difference between the two would mean that the C++ ABI
+# had changed and that should not happen even if the change is compatible
+# at the C language level.
+
#
# The list of data types has been created with
# cat <<EOF |
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