Re: in case you missed it

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, John Fleck wrote:

> My understanding from Michael's earlier note about this a week ago,
> when he did it, was, "The impact of this is extremely tiny, since the
> APIs the public use ... doesn't change at all, indeed this change will
> not have any bincompat affect on any existing software." Do you have
> some reason to believe that is not the case?
> 

Yes, the function was being used (and still is being) both before and
after the chanmge, so the "not affecting any existing software" part is
not exactly true. If a function's signature changes its use also has to
change - there is no way to call a function with one less parameter.

> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 

	Sander

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