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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to glibc 2.29
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOoMsLTXcpvGLnaeDZ4PiOu3WHVkU+STO4pBnK1VDcYq9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffb5c746-1672-076c-e1e2-ae6c4f435026@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/29/2018 06:16 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> extern enum cpu_features_kind __x86_get_cpu_kind (void)
>>       __attribute__ ((const));
>>
>> extern const struct cpuid_registers *__x86_get_cpuid_registers
>>       (unsigned int) __attribute__ ((const));
>>
>> extern unsigned int __x86_get_arch_feature (unsigned int)
>>       __attribute__ ((const));
>
>
> Are these functions supposed to be usable in IFUNC resolvers?

They have the same limitation as

/* Used from outside of glibc to get access to the CPU features
   structure.  */
extern const struct cpu_features *__get_cpu_features (void)
     __attribute__ ((const));

> Shouldn't these identifiers be in the public (non-internal) namespace?
>

Do we have precedents for such arch specific public functions?

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-29 16:16 H.J. Lu
2018-07-31 13:32 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-07-31 14:49   ` H.J. Lu
2018-07-31 15:06     ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-07-31 16:17       ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-17 14:50 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-17 15:46   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2018-08-17 16:19     ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-17 16:44       ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-17 19:11         ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-20 11:29         ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-20 20:55           ` H.J. Lu

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