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ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...Posted Dec 3, 2010 19:50 UTC (Fri) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683)In reply to: ABI backward-compatibility is the trick... by steven676 Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project
I don't think anyone was talking about letting the kernel break libc<->kernel ABI, the talk was about making new API available sooner and having new implementations of the (old) ABI in the libc sooner. Statically linked stuff would still use the old KERNEL ABI, and it would still work, but dynamically linked stuff would use then new libc which would use new kernel ABI, hopefully offering improved performance in the process.
Basically API/ABI-wise nothing changes (at least not intentionally), except the speed at which new parts become useable.
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