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Date:      Wed, 28 May 2008 14:50:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        David Schultz <das@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:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805281445030.8149@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080528184143.GA7624@zim.MIT.EDU>
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On Wed, 28 May 2008, David Schultz wrote:

> 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?

I think you're just off by a version.  -stable didn't have
FBSD_1.1, so we just _did_ add memrchr() to a _new_ namespace
in -stable.  All new and changed symbols in 8-current go
in FBSD_1.1, never in FBSD_1.0.  So they can be MFC'd
in the same namespace that -current as using.  After we
branched 7.0 from -current, the FBSD_1.0 namespace was
frozen.  This will happen everytime we branch from -current.

-- 
DE



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