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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export AT_HWCAP from libc.
> Anyways, the closest thing Solaris has to what you mention is a
> "long __getauxval(int type)" interface.
If that's a general-purpose auxv-scanning interface, then that sounds like
it might be the really useful thing to export instead. We could still have
it special-case AT_HWCAP (and perhaps a few others) to report the cached
values we already have internally rather than actually scan.
Thanks,
Roland