Yet another architecture

[schwidefsky@de.ibm.com]

>That's not too much of a problem.  The function is always inlined.  In
>case the extra parameter is not needed it'll be ignored and not even
>loaded.
>
>Only requirement: you provide a patch for all architectures.

I had a different idea. Why not passing the pointer to the complete header
to the function? This way each architecture can do whatever they want to
decide if the program is usable on the machine. I attached a patch, what do
you think?

blue skies,
   Martin

Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
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