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Date:      Fri, 10 May 2002 01:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
Cc:        obrien@freebsd.org, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020510011352.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020510045701.GA34750@nuit.iteration.net>

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On 10-May-2002 Michael C. Wu wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:14PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled:
>| On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>| >     the way for us to allow natively compiled multi-architectural support.
>| >     e.g. consider this:
>| >    cc -ABI4 ...
>| >    cc -ABI5 ...
>| >    cc -ABILinux ...
>| >    cc -ABIOpenBSD ...
>| Honestly, why do we have this need?  It seems to fall into the "it would
>| be nice"; but seldomly used.
> 
>     Vendor imported code (e.g. KAME(sigh..), USB, possibly 1394, 
>     cardbus, possibly some userland important tools and libraries)
>     would have little or no diffs from the original vendor's code..

Erm, all the changes so far aren't in API's, but rather changing the size
of types like time_t.  The same KAME code would compile fine.

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