Issues in compatibility reports

After Compatibility Analyser has run the analysis, the generated reports are listed in the application's view. Some items are reported differently, depending on whether the report is for header or library files.

On the report, you can also view the OK cases that did not have compatibility problems.

Reading the report

The first part of the report lists general information such as the creation date, the baseline and current versions, and the parameters used. See the following example:

Sample compatibility analysis report

The second part contains the BC breaks that were found. For each header file with problems, the baseline header file and the matching current header file are listed. Below them, the changes that may affect the BC are listed. Each issue contains:

Sample of reports BBC Breaks and possible BC Breaks

For libraries, each issue contains:

Sample of library analysis BBC breaks

Analysing the findings

To ease the analysis of the report, make sure that you have the report generated for the platform release the product is based on, as well as a list of known issues (see Configuring the knownissues.xml file) in the platform. For each break (or possible break) in the product, the report for the platform is then checked.

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