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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2008 14:41:43 -0400
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, d@delphij.net, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.ORG>, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include string.h src/lib/libc/string Makefile.inc memchr.3 memrchr.c src/sys/sys param.h
Message-ID:  <20080528184143.GA7624@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805281049150.7240@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Wed, May 28, 2008, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> No, all new symbols in 8-current go into FBSD_1.1, not 1.2.  The
> only time we go to 1.2 is when 8.x branches to 9.0.  If for some
> reason memrchr() were to change its ABI, then we would go to 1.1.1
> in -current for the ABI change and any subsequent new symbols, and
> the MFC to 7.x would also be 1.1.1.
> 
> It is ok for a FBSD_1.1 in -current to be a superset of FBSD_1.1
> in a previous branch.  In fact you can't prevent them from being
> different unless you mandate that all new symbols get MFC'd to
> their respective namespaces in previous branches.

Perhaps I misinterpreted what you said about this last year, but I
thought you said you didn't want symbols added to existing
namespaces in -STABLE. In 7.X, why would it be okay to add new
symbols to FBSD_1.1 between releases but not to FBSD_1.0?



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