tech-net: Re: ancillary data alignment and binary backward compatibility

Subject: Re: ancillary data alignment and binary backward compatibility
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/28/2000 08:55:23

>	I thought again about it, and I think I'm really stuck.
>	What level of binary backward compatibility do we need to provide
>	in such situation?

	another thing: name space poluttion if we include machine/param.h
	from sys/socket.h.  if we include machine/param.h from within
	sys/socket.h, ALIGN() will be declared.  unproven-pthreads 1.2 will
	not be compiled by name conflict, for example.

itojun