> The asmlinkage is for the benefit of user-space C++ programs that
> include kernel headers.
Not really. System calls are called through the int 0x80 interface
with stubs in the libc, and the user program never sees the internal
kernel symbol table. Linux is not a DLL.
asmlinkage is just a historical remnant from the great deays when Linux
was writen in C++ (somewhere around 0.97 I think).
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