[fpc-devel] Threading support and C library under Linux/Unix

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Florian Kl?mpfl said:
> > In our previous episode, Marco van de Voort said:
> >>> At least according to Linus, the kernel api/syscall interface will never
> >>> break.
> > 
> >> They will just not implement new calls on new archs ? :-)
> > 
> > Euh, old calls obviously.
> 
> Well, adding a new arch is not breaking old stuff, right :)?

It was just a remark that "Not breaking" and being backwards compat are two
different things.

IOW there are cases where non breaking policy changes can be frustrating
(e.g. where general Unix code becomes OS and arch dependant)