From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 23 20:55:41 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809A937B401; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286B743E42; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29816; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:55:37 +1000 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:06:41 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: John Baldwin Cc: Mark Murray , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdlib.h src/lib/libc/gen getbsize.3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021024140310.G25683-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > Seriously, the only breakage from previous releases would be for people > with Alphas running 4.x binaries but those should be using either > libc.so.4 or be statically linked so it's no big deal. People in > -current can just deal I guess since that is current. We break the > ABI in current a lot as it is. :) Do we actually (other than not always being backwards compatibly with extensions)? Breakage of old things like signal contexts always causes problems. This despite signal contexts being an implementation detail that most applications don't care about. The ones that actually care really care. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message