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
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