On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I also noticed that if we disable the 'splat' mode, we'd break sysVR4 > > binary code as they do that.. (though it's #if 0'd out at the moment) > > not to mention linux (more important..) though I might add that that > code could do with rewriting to get rid of a lot of "stackgap" stuff.
Even changing the semantics of i386_set_ldt() to support dynamic allocation may break ABI compatibility with Linux (not to mention both API and ABI compatibility with OtherBSD). I wondered about this when the change was proposed, but only had a quick look at an old version of Linux for API compatibility. Linux seem to have a different API. Bruce _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
