On 12/ 7/14 02:50 PM, James Carlson wrote:
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On 12/7/2014 5:26 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
Wouldn't this break the binary compatibility guarantee that Solaris
had been traditionally marketed on?
I'm no kernel engineer, so I wouldn't know.
No. The guarantee has always been that *IF* your application complies
strictly with the ABI *THEN* it won't be broken on future releases
without adequate notice.
This doesn't in any way guarantee that you can produce such an
application in the first place by linking together arbitrary (and
incompatible) objects.
Producing an ABI compliant application can be a difficult job,
particularly if you choose to work in a hostile environment such as C++.
Right - the binary compatibility guaranteed is with previous versions
of the OS, not arbitrary compilation options.
Similarly you can't link 32-bit & 64-bit C code together, nor SPARC &
i386 - they're all binary incompatible with each other.
As to whether OpenIndiana cares about Sun's marketing programs is a
completely different question - maintaining binary compatibility can
be a lot of work, and OI's clearly not overflowing with excess
developers with oodles of spare time to offer.
-alan-
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