Mach syscalls on Linux/Alpha.

Oleg Gusev (oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 02 Apr 1998 18:32:02 +0000


hi Linus,

the Acrobat Reader for DU4.0 uses pthreads, which use syscalls
with negative numbers, i.e. nxm_task_init #-33:

lda v0,-33(zero)
callsys
ret zero,(ra),0x1

While "normal" OSF syscalls lie between 0<num<256 and are more
or less implemented, what about these "negative" ones ?
Are they somewhere documented ? Or maybe it would be easier
instead to compile linuxthreads in ECOFF ?

Oleg.

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