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DPDK supports a variety of platforms and toolsets and my experience with
SPDK suggests that we'll end up with compiler specific ifdef's.

I'd argue they are inevitable. Consider POSIX close(): if it's missing, what
would be a correct fallback? It depends on the execution environment (OS).
String function fallbacks, of course, are easily implemented from scratch.

Agreed.

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Public functions without rte_ prefix shall not be introduced at all.

Agreed. Perhaps as a separate patch we should consider validation rules 
to enforce the requirements.

Regards,
Nick