Manual for platform-specific features and new __ppc_get_timebase inline.

[BZ #13743]
A new class of installed headers has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality.  PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access (__ppc_get_timebase).  This
is required for applications that measure time at high frequencies with
high precision that can't afford a syscall.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1c5835aab5..d332708d77 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ Version 2.16
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@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ Version 2.16
 
 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64.  Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
 
-* More optimized functions for PowerPC.  Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
+* More optimized functions for PowerPC.  Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
+  and Will Schmidt.
 
 * More optimized functions for SPARC.  Implemented by David S. Miller.
 
@@ -110,6 +111,11 @@ Version 2.16
   /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
 
 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
+
+* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
+  platform-specific functionality.  PowerPC added the first instance with a
+  function to provide time base register access.  Contributed by Tulio
+  Magno Quites Machado Filho.
 
 Version 2.15