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From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
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At 20:50 03-06-2000 -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote:
>It isn't the same as Linux's.  Linux passes arguments to syscalls in
>registers, while FreeBSD puts them on the stack.

It is often possible to write asm code that works on both: You put the
values in the registers and then you push the registers.

Cheers,
Adam


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