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

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
To: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
Cc: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>, John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>, 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 14:06:44 -0700

 On Jun 21, 2005, at 1:53 PM, James Chacon wrote:
 
 > i.e. we should now have printfEx for anything printf related the  
 > standard
 > didn't cover...
 
 In the NetBSD case, it could even be a weak symbol that points to  
 printf!  By doing this, you are telling the implementation that you  
 are explicitly relying on extensions (how is the implementation to  
 know otherwise that you expect NULL to really mean "(null)"?).
 
 -- thorpej