Re: Best Way to Create String Variables in Assembly

Charles A. Crayne <ccrayne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "bwaichu{at}yahoo.com" <bwaichu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> :/usr/src/sys/kern $ cat syscalls.master | grep brk
> :69 STD { int sys_sbrk(int incr); }
>
> Interestingly enough, I don't have a "/usr/src/sys/kern"
> directory; I don't have a "syscalls.master" file in any
> directory; and my syscalls table shows that syscall 69 is
> 'ssetmask'. [snip] What are you running?

I suspect Brian is running FreeBSD. I get the same on
that system. Interestingly, on Linux, I get:

$ grep brk /usr/include/asm-i386/unistd.h
#define __NR_brk 45


It appears that *BSD has only the sbrk() syscall,
while Linux has only brk(). Slight difference.

-- Robert

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