Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:48:09 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: klibc development release |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > >> How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know. One interpretation >> of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD, >> it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls, >> including the obsolete ones. > > netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a > per-version ifdef. A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have > this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the > old syscalls)
Sure, but that still means the *current* ABI is consistent between platforms.
-hpa
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