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

From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT)

 > GCC already has -ffreestanding to suppress this behavior.  If you're
 > not freestanding, you're hosted, so there is no need for any other
 > option.
 
 I don't get it.  You're saying that every hosted environment has
 exactly the same set of extensions to standard libraries - the same set
 of additional provisions, of semantics defined in cases where the
 standard is silent or specifies undefined behaviour?
 
 I can't really make myself believe that; you know better.
 
 But if not, I don't see how you get to the "there is no need..."
 conclusion from that premise.
 
 /~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
 \ / Ribbon Campaign
  X  Against HTML	       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
 / \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B