ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...
ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...
Posted Dec 1, 2010 14:13 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: ABI backward-compatibility is the trick... by steven676
Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project
This is very true, and I don't actually believe that the kernel devs would use this as an excuse to give up on their current rules regarding userspace-visible changes. It would have all sorts of evil repercussions.
On the other hand, it's pretty darn hard to link many types of programs statically even today.