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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