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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c
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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


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