Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 20:53:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c Message-ID: <20021101205126.A14774-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20021101073933.GI24139@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [021031 23:17] wrote: > > > > > Overall, I think we do fairly well. There have been three major API > > > breakages that I can think of: a.out -> ELF, the sigset_t changes > > > and these __sF changes. > > > > ... but apart from these changes they (current applications) often do > > run on old kernels unless they are very system-specific. The a.out > > -> ELF incompatibilities and maybe the sigset_t changes were unavoidable, > > but the others are mostly just from poor organization. > > I'm not sure I understand the importance of all of this honestly but > I don't think anyone would object if options were added to make.conf > to conditionalize __sF and the signal stuff, the default being the > current settings though. Wrong. I would object :-). Hiding bugs under options doesn't make the bugs go away. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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