On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 02:34:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Adding the AT_HWCAP stuff would be relatively easy.  I'm not as sure
> what to do about getauxval().  To be maximally linux-compatible (which
> would be good for ports) we'd put getauxval() in libc and make it work
> just like the linux one.  That's a bit at odds with the support we have
> now, which is procstat_getauxv() in libprocstat.  It's not very
> compatible with how linux getauxval() works, so using just that might
> lead to a lot of patches in ports.

libprocstat is for accessing other processes information and address space.
Our libc already has _elf_aux_info, but it is not exported.  If you have
a clear description of the desired API, I can add it (I do not want to
read glibc code).
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