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Re: GLIBC IA64 HP_TIMING fixes for SMP systems with unsynchronizedITC

Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:

> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> That needs to be libmemusage-sysdep_routines.
>
>>
>> > +		int fd = open ("/proc/sal/itc_drift", O_RDONLY);
>>
>> This is Linux-specific, isn't it?  Thus it belongs under
>> sysdeps/.../linux/ia64.
>
> Quite a bit of the code is linux specific. Do I leave the generic code
> broken?

The generic code has to be adjusted for the specific target anyway, if and
when someone ports it to a non-Linux system.

Andreas.

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