5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
6:51 a.m.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
Interestingly, the pipe manpage says:
SYNOPSIS sys pipe / pipe = 42.; not in assembler
and I don't quite understand the comment :-) Other manpages with
the same comment are boot(2), csw(2), fpe(2), kill(2), rele(2), sleep(2),
sync(2) and times(2). So it's not particular to pipe(2).
Can anybody help explain the "not in assembler" comment?
As I recall, it means that those symbols are not recognised by the
assembler, so had to be defined by hand.
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