Roland McGrath wrote: > > Well, we use strings to represent the platforms already (ie, the actual > > CPU microarchitecture). Fitting those into bits would be annoying, it > > Then use dsocaps. > > > makes sense to have AT_BASE_PLATFORM to be the "base" variant of > > AT_PLATFORM. > > I understand why you think so. But let's not be too abstract. The > purpose of the addition is to drive ld.so's selection of libraries, yes?
That is one purpose. But there are others (JVMs, performance tools). dsocaps seems to be an ld.so-specific thing... or am I missing how a "third-party" program would use it? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
