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From: dan@charyb.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Indirect system call (WARNING)
Keywords: doesn't aways work
Message-ID: <321@charyb.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 22:38:22 GMT
References: <28945@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <8494@cbmvax.UUCP> <1598@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <105@amix.commodore.com> <128380@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick)
Organization: KFW Corporation, Newbury Park, CA
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In article <128380@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@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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