Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeremie Courreges-Anglas: > > > > The below diff allows to build flac on macppc, where tests are passing > > > [1]. I've not bumped revision, the change impacts powerpc where it has > > > never been built. > > > > Good enough for ports, ok jca@ > > ok naddy@ > > > If we want this fixed upstream, someone (tm) should write better tests. > > FreeBSD has the functionality, but the API is different: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239870
In my opinion the entire "aux" approach is garbage. Linux started it and put a mixture of weak junk in their (including their tiny useless random seed, which was a fantastic idea to defer doing something proper for random numbers for a decade or two). I prefer richer interfaces. On other cpus we have sysctl's which expose the hardware's feature set. This wasn't nicely generalized, because it is already cpu-specific. I still believe that is the right way to go, on systems which don't have an equivelant for userland-permitted "cpuinfo" instructions. And if there's one thing I really hate, it is SIGILL for discovery.
