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Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] Add getauxval.
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:23:49 -0700
> On 03/17/2012 03:43 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:06:32 -0700
>>
>>> * misc/getauxval.c: New file.
>>> * misc/Makefile (routines): Add it.
>>> * misc/Versions (GLIBC_2.16): Export it.
>>> * misc/sysv/auxv.h (getauxval): Declare.
>>> * elf/dl-support.c (_dl_auxv): New variable.
>>> (_dl_aux_init): Initialize it.
>>
>> If you provide this then you could use only getauxval() in libgcc
>> and therefore have code that works on Solaris too.
>
> Works with the non-existant Solaris ifunc's?
Good point :-)