[PATCH 1/2] BZ#13743: PowerPC - Add a new header for platform specific functions

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 09:16, Steven Munroe <munroesj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Now if you think only PowerPC has these issue, consider all the random
> attempts to use the rdtsc instruction you might have seen, and how
> useful it would be to have one well defined and correct version every
> one could use.

If this is a fair comparison then it is also clear that this
discussion is completely misplaced here.  Something as trivial as
rdtsc should be handled in the same way as said instruction is: in a
header in gcc.  This way you also reach programmers who are not using
glibc  but instead gcc on other platforms.

Since this was brought up on the glibc list I have to assume there is
more to it.  And that means your argumentation is deliberately
misleading.