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authorCherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>2021-05-26 12:14:19 -0400
committerCherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>2021-06-08 20:19:17 +0000
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doc/go1.17: revise OpenBSD release notes
Updates #44513. Change-Id: I64077859fa3061fee8327599875ad3870d603a81 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/322856 Trust: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Heschi Kreinick <heschi@google.com>
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@@ -95,11 +95,13 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
In Go 1.16, on the 64-bit x86 and 64-bit ARM architectures on
OpenBSD (the <code>openbsd/amd64</code> and <code>openbsd/arm64</code>
ports) system calls are made through <code>libc</code>, instead
- of directly using the machine instructions. In Go 1.17, this is
- also done on the 32-bit x86 and 32-bit ARM architectures on OpenBSD
+ of directly using machine instructions. In Go 1.17, this is also
+ done on the 32-bit x86 and 32-bit ARM architectures on OpenBSD
(the <code>openbsd/386</code> and <code>openbsd/arm</code> ports).
This ensures forward-compatibility with future versions of
- OpenBSD.
+ OpenBSD, in particular, with OpenBSD 6.9 onwards, which requires
+ system calls to be made through <code>libc</code> for non-static
+ Go binaries.
</p>
<h3 id="arm64">ARM64</h3>