Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Kostik (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:20:48 +0300) * | > A CMUCL binary built on a pre-7.1 (?) release of FreeBSD, will crash | > almost immediately when run on 7.1 (well, "if memory serves"). | | This has been an issue for 7.0, and it was explicitely handled, see r174254. I know it was (I was

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:11:07PM -0400, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Dag-Erling (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:11:50 +0200) * > | "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > | > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x > | > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Dag-Erling (Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:11:50 +0200) * | "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: | > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x | > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward | > compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > It's not entirely that simple. The ABI on a stable branch like 7.x > should be backward compatible, but there isn't a guarantee of forward > compatibility. IE, 7.0 binary should be able to run on 7.x, but a 7.2 > binary might not run on 7.0. It should be more or les

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-10-10 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2009.09.24 15:26:34 -0500, Stef Walter wrote: > It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major > versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point versions. > That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries for (eg) > 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-09-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:04 -0700 Julian Elischer wrote: > Stef Walter wrote: > > It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major > > versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point > > versions. That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries > > for (eg)

Re: Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-09-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Stef Walter wrote: It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point versions. That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries for (eg) 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are not supposed to change. Is this a p