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Re: RFC: Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to glibc 2.29

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:29:44 +0200
Subject: Re: RFC: Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to glibc 2.29
References: <20180729161623.GA17944@gmail.com> <ffb5c746-1672-076c-e1e2-ae6c4f435026@redhat.com> <CAMe9rOoMsLTXcpvGLnaeDZ4PiOu3WHVkU+STO4pBnK1VDcYq9g@mail.gmail.com> <040ab157-8d0f-17e2-1421-a20d4c68d87a@redhat.com> <CAMe9rOo=0qKq6xt-yCLUkRjaPvUfU2k2UNSF+Vy90E8_fxmR8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/17/2018 06:43 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

Shouldn't these identifiers be in the public (non-internal) namespace?

Do we have precedents for such arch specific public functions?


There is modify_ldt.

Which header file has its prototype?

vm86 is an example for an arch-specific function with a prototype in aninstalled header file.


Thanks,
Florian

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