Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is a joke right? If you really think this you have no idea what ABI > stability means and how extremely hard it is to even sort of remotely > approach it. I know it's really hard, the only way of possibly having ABI is plannig things really carefully about every single thing, so knowing every single piece... It's freakin' hard. > Trust me. It's *extremely* hard to impossible. Several security fixes > can only be fixed this way. And it's REALLY fragile even if for other > fixes. And I am very glad that the linux kernel people in general decide > to not go for abi stability, the hacks that would be needed would be so > obscene and the gains very very minimal. (it's open source, you have the > source after all!) The gains are simply a rough reuse of older modules! Just joking... I was simply wondering how guys like beos/haiku (it's a microkernel... i know... don't even think about starting a flame) could get ABI/API... I mean, if it's true that they have... I don't think it's because of c++ instead of plain c... -- Sensei