Am 23.06.2014 12:53 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschn...@lumino.de>: > > On 06/20/2014 02:15 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: >> >> Henry just corrected me : that's not what this function is for: it's to select int 0x80 vs sysenter... and I remember seeing somewhere on lkml (long time ago) that 64bit x86 don't need it, (either they both are equivalent or int 0x80 doesn't exist any more, or something...) > > I see. > > But this is really silly ! > > Why did they not simply (additionally) implement a function that just performs the best possible system call variant for the currant arch ?
Because you'd need to link in that code then. Where should that code be then? The glibc? What about other c-libraries then or FPC's c-library-less approach? A library? Oh wait that needs kernel calls to load... Regards, Sven
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