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+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
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+
+This directory contains the serialized ABI definitions for a typical build of
+the lttng-ust libraries. This information is extracted using
+[libabigail](https://sourceware.org/libabigail/).
+
+The artefacts used to generate these were built with `CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb"` and
+all optional configure switches enabled.
+
+You can compare the serialized ABI with a shared object to check for breaking
+changes. For example, here we compare an in-tree built version of
+`liblttng-ust.so` with the serialized ABI of stable-2.13 :
+
+```
+abidiff \
+ extras/abi/2.13/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/liblttng-ust.so.1.xml \
+ src/lib/lttng-ust/.libs/liblttng-ust.so
+```