From ddb497e81596a577d9822c8e1c394fb80e22f29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon McVittie <[EMAIL REDACTED]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 15:37:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] testver: Assert that SDL_GetRevision() starts with SDL-
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/14575
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
(cherry picked from commit 65ef4df6d4d4afae3746df934837852f84345564)
---
test/testver.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/test/testver.c b/test/testver.c
index b8730384432c9..df71f5c98ca66 100644
--- a/test/testver.c
+++ b/test/testver.c
@@ -33,9 +33,18 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
SDL_MAJOR_VERSION, SDL_MINOR_VERSION, SDL_MICRO_VERSION,
SDL_REVISION);
int version = SDL_GetVersion();
+ const char *revision = SDL_GetRevision();
SDL_Log("Runtime version: %d.%d.%d (%s)",
SDL_VERSIONNUM_MAJOR(version), SDL_VERSIONNUM_MINOR(version), SDL_VERSIONNUM_MICRO(version),
- SDL_GetRevision());
+ revision);
+ /* This is not an API guarantee, but we try to make sure it's true,
+ * so that the version number can be extracted while debugging with:
+ * strings libSDL3.so.0 | grep SDL-
+ */
+ if (SDL_strncmp(revision, "SDL-", 4) != 0) {
+ SDL_LogError(SDL_LOG_CATEGORY_APPLICATION, "Revision should start with SDL-");
+ return 1;
+ }
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}