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Comment by sedatk

10 hours ago

NTDLL is NT’s kernel ABI, not syscalls. Nothing on Windows uses syscalls to call the kernel.

NTDLL isn’t some higher level library. It’s just a series of entry points into NT kernel.

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sedatk

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dcrazy  9 hours ago

Yes, the fact that functions in NTDLL issue a syscall instruction is a platform-specific implementation detail.

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