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Re:Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test by zcbenz on Sunday April 16, 2023 @11:06PM (#35596456)
Adding fields to context will break ABI compatibility.

To work around the problem, some libraries add padding fields, and some require passing the size of struct to determine ABI version.

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Re:Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test by cozzyd on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:25PM (#35609613)
I'm guessing context here is a pointer or a handle?
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