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Comment by int_19h

6 months ago

If it's a CALL instruction into a user-space DLL, that's still an extra indirection.

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immibis  6 months ago

Kind of like the syscall dispatch table on the Linux kernel side, right? After you issue the handoff instruction and it becomes the operating system's problem, there's still more code before you get to the code that does the thing you wanted.

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