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@@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ Do not send CLs removing the interior tags from such phrases.
   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, in particular, with OpenBSD 6.9 onwards, which requires
+  This ensures compatibility with OpenBSD 6.9 onwards, which require
   system calls to be made through <code>libc</code> for non-static
   Go binaries.
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