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		FullyFunctional on Oct 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel I'm not conflating anything. Why do you need to burden a language with a C ABI when you can just invoke the language independent mechanism directly?

samus on Oct 28, 2023 [–]

The C ABI is influenced by C's type model, but so is OpenBSD itself. There is no truly language independent mechanism. If a programming language implementation can't interface with a C ABI, how can it interface with the language independent mechanism?

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