Re: [pdf-devel] Binary compatibility

[Aleksander Morgado]

>          c) Totally hide the structure to the compiler, by just giving
>             to it a forward-declaration and the defining it in the .c
>             that actually creates the instances, so we don't tempt it
>             to make weird optimizations based on his knowledge about
>             the structure or the user to see it (the distributed .h
>             headers would no contain any information about the
>             structure).
>
> I think that I like this idea, but I would like to hear the opinion of
> other people before to take any decision about this issue.

I like it, yes. In this way those types will really be 'opaque' to the 
program using the library; and there is no possibility to use the 
internals of a given type (assuming it's a structure) in a way not 
defined in the API.

Cheers,
-Aleksander