The following reply was made to PR port-xen/29887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>, jhawk@MIT.EDU,
	christos@zoulas.com, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	port-xen-maintainer@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:13 -0700

 On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:
 
 > The problem though is that thanks to gcc, how puts() behaves is how
 > printf() behaves some of the time. So printf() no longer has its
 > historical behavior.
 
 So what?  It wasn't documented behavior, so anyone who depends on it  
 is being foolish anyway.
 
 -- thorpej