On Aug 11, 11:16am, m...@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports
| Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: | | > Like it or not most of the world has turned into linux. We can either | > provide compatibility where possible (and not overly disgusting) to | > gain compatibility with 3rd party code developed for linux, or simply | > say "tough, it will not work on NetBSD because we refuse to compromise". | | IMO here it is even a worse stance, since we already have the desired | fix for amd64, i386, m68k, mips, vax, and hppa. It would be more like: | "it will work on NetBSD, except for sh3, sparc, and sparc64 ports | because we refuse to compromise. And on powerpc and alpha it will work | but with different interfaces". | | We are supposed to focus on portability, it is really weird to argue | that a feature should have a MI interface. I don't see why this change is met with so much resistance... I could believe that, if the change suggested to make this the default behavior (which some would argue it should be...) christos
