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Re: sys/io.h



On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:57:40PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> Anyone knows why /usr/include/sys/io.h is in libc6-devel on ia32, but not on
> ppc? Both are potato.

Because it's an ia32 (and alpha) specific header file.  There's just no
useful definitions for those functions on powerpc, so rather than
forging stubs for them, the libc developers chose to make it obvious, I
guess.

Dan

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