[Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Mon Jun 23 12:53:35 CEST 2014


On 06/20/2014 02:15 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> Henry just corrected me : that's not what this function is for: it's 
> to select int 0x80 vs sysenter... and I remember seeing somewhere on 
> lkml (long time ago) that 64bit x86 don't need it, (either they both 
> are equivalent or int 0x80 doesn't exist any more, or something...)
I see.

But this is really silly !

Why did they not simply (additionally) implement a function that just 
performs the best possible system call variant for the currant arch ?

-Michael




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