Indirect system call (WARNING)

Dan Mick dan at charyb.COM
Tue Nov 28 09:38:22 AEST 1989


In article <128380 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
>[From Sun's syscall man page:
>BUGS
>     There is no way to simulate system calls such  as  pipe(2V),
>     which  return  values in register d1 on Sun-3 and Sun-4 sys-
>     tems or in register %edx on Sun386i systems.
>]
 

Pretty neat, since Sun-4 systems have no register named 'd1'...<sigh>...
(They probably mean %o1.)

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