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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:37:18AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> I would like to know why alpha seems to be the only
> arch which has assembler code for some syscalls
> (like the sys_getx* calls)

Compatibility with OSF/1.


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