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Subject: Re: RFC: Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to glibc 2.29
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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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 an 
installed header file.

Thanks,
Florian