Re: Backwards compatibility issues with GDK 2.4

[Steffen Gutmann <gutmann ieee org>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> Trying to preserve the ability to compile against GTK+-2.4 then link
> against GTK+-2.2 is basically a losing battle. E.g., this would  make
> impossible the change I suggested recently for g_return_if_fail() that
> saves 4% code size for GTK+.

How about introducing a 'g_return_if_fail_compact' that uses your new 
and size-optimized version and leaving 'g_return_if_fail' as is?  This 
would preserve compatibility between newer and existing versions and 
also allow an application to use g_return_if_fail in the old way with 
all the __FILE__ and __LINE__ macros available.  Then 
g_return_if_fail_compact could even be more size-oprtimized by e.g. 
discarding the LOG_DOMAIN parameter.

Regards,

  Steffen