a bug in u386mon & what is sys3b(2) ???????

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sun Jul 22 11:27:26 AEST 1990


>>sys3b(3,&swapinfo), which gave me 'unresolved external' on linking.
>
>sys3b(2) is a system call specific to 3b architecture.  It allows you
>to do interesting things to the 3b such as make the green LED flash,
>determine the CPU ID, etc etc.

Unfortunately, somebody at AT&T got confused and put some calls *not*
specific to the 3B architecture into "sys3b()", like the calls to
manipulate swapping areas.  They may have moved them into some more
sensible (i.e., machine-independent) place in S5R4.



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