<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div style="direction: inherit;">Where can we learn what affects the ABI? (Google, yes, but is there a highly respected document or article?)</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">Unless it's just something I'm not really familiar with, it might be helpful to detail what kind of changes would affect the ABI. </div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">Brandon</div><div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div>On Jul 29, 2016, at 8:38 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:29 PM, Magnus Ahltorp <<a href="mailto:map@kth.se">map@kth.se</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>30 Jul 2016 02:17 Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Moving into early Swift 4 planning and development, we have no desires beyond what I listed in the big email. There is no long laundry list, it is a few specific (big!) topics.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We specifically do not want a surge of proposals.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Is it appropriate to discuss high-level topics that are not one of the topics on your list? Example: Decreasing the number of cases where unsafe constructs have to be used.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>If it is not, how do topics get on the list?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>If a topic is related to source or ABI compatibility, it is fair game for discussion. We don’t want to widen the doors beyond this, because that is already a huge set of very important topics.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-Chris</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-evolution mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>