[added H. Peter Anvin to CC for this patch because he
seems to have contributed large parts of the X32 code]

---
 man2/syscall.2 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2
index ef8f3cf..1f25255 100644
--- a/man2/syscall.2
+++ b/man2/syscall.2
@@ -170,12 +170,18 @@ s390      svc 0   r1      r2      See below
 s390x  svc 0   r1      r2      See below
 sparc/32       t 0x10  g1      o0
 sparc/64       t 0x6d  g1      o0
-x86_64 syscall rax     rax
+x86_64 syscall rax     rax     See below
+x32    syscall rax     rax     See below
 .TE
 .PP
 For s390 and s390x, NR (the system call number)
 may be passed directly with "svc NR" if it is less than 256.
 
+The x32 ABI uses the same instruction as the x86_64 ABI and is used on
+the same processors. To differentiate between them, the bitmask
+.I __X32_SYSCALL_BIT
+is bitwise-ORed into the syscall number for syscalls under the x32 ABI.
+
 On a few architectures,
 a register is used to indicate simple boolean failure of the system call:
 ia64 uses
@@ -210,6 +216,7 @@ s390x       r2    r3    r4    r5    r6    r7    -
 sparc/32    o0    o1    o2    o3    o4    o5    -
 sparc/64    o0    o1    o2    o3    o4    o5    -
 x86_64      rdi   rsi   rdx   r10   r8    r9    -
+x32         rdi   rsi   rdx   r10   r8    r9    -
 .TE
 .PP
 The mips/o32 system call convention passes
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2.1.4
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