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From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Cownie, James H" <james.h.cownie@intel.com>
Cc: nd@arm.com,
	"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] getauxval.3 correct AT_HWCAP result description
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:13:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5785F835.4070209@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b181d0f-3a50-bf18-268b-9991de75d216@gmail.com>

On 12/07/16 21:24, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>  .BR AT_HWCAP
>> -A pointer to a multibyte mask of bits whose settings
>> +A four byte long bit-mask whose settings
>>  indicate detailed processor capabilities.

why is it four byte long?

it's a long and the target abi decides how many
bits of that is used.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-13  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12 16:35 [patch] getauxval.3 correct AT_HWCAP result description Cownie, James H
2016-07-12 20:24 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-07-13  8:13   ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
     [not found]     ` <5785F835.4070209-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-13  8:34       ` Cownie, James H
     [not found]         ` <397D95928DECEF49983F5B237627E97857330926-kPTMFJFq+rEMvF1YICWikbfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-14  6:44           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-08-04 20:35     ` Steven Munroe

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