[haiku-development] Re: undertanding syscall

On 2008-12-05 at 22:21:08 [+0100], Romain <romain.haiku@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I look deeper at all the syscall chain and I think that I now see all parts 
> involved.
> There is only one function that I could not find referenced at any place:
> "syscall_dispatcher" that is in "src/system/kernel/syscall.cpp". It seems 
> to me that it
> is some obsolete code of a previous way to handle syscalls. The same seems 
> to apply to
> the generated "syscall_dispatcher.h".
> 
> Is that correct ?

It's not used for x86. It might be used for other architectures. Though we 
never got far enough with the PPC port to have a userland (and thus no 
syscalls), and I can't say how far François has pushed the m68k port.

CU, Ingo

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