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Re: [PATCH 1/7] Add <sys/auxv.h> and gethwcap function.
On 05/14/12 11:49, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> Isn't this redundant with the following?
>
> __getauxval (AT_HWCAP)
>
> I imagine, even for a user application, this probably isn't going to
> be called more than once so is this specific export justified?
Nearly but not quite. Please read the 0/7 post re the different
return types.
And I can imagine it being called up to some fraction of the shared
libraries loaded by the program.
r~