Re: klibc development release

[H. Peter Anvin]

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