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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:06:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include stdlib.h src/lib/libc/gen getbsize.3
Message-ID:  <20021024140310.G25683-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021023153054.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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


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