Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-05-19 at 23:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>What I find truly puzzling is that obviously intelligent people like
>>yourself still seem to think that ABIs remain fixed.
>
> Because with a few deep system stuff exceptions they do, although they
> certainly extend. Rogue for 0.98.5 still runs on 2.4.21 (although you
> may have fun finding libc2.2.2)
That's my point, though: the ABI *as a whole* does not remain fixed,
even though it evolves according to rules, one of which is try to
maintain backwards compatibility.
The "copy-and-modify" mantra doesn't take that into account, nevermind
the GPL issues.
-hpa
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