> > I don't recall any discussion about it on current-users or elsewhere
> > about doing this.
> 
> It was discussed on tech-misc.

In the middle of a thread entitled called
"Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/x86/x86" - which isn't exactly a
harbinger of "source tree churn up ahead". IMNSHO, changes like
this should be announced or mooted or whatever in a more public
forum in a thread of its own.

Unfortunately, this does raise the problem of cross-compilation
on non-NetBSD systems; the host where I do the majority of my
test compilation is Ubuntu, and thus I get hit with the "Whoops,
this source file has lots of NetBSD-centric bits in it that 
don't work with the native tools". So far, I've hit two issues
in games/ with __dead, and IIRC tn3270 might have some of those
(if it's even still in the tree.)