syscall sysret

[Joseph Koshy]

> Does amd64 freebsd always utilize syscall / sysret opcodes?

See: src/lib/libc/amd64/SYS.h
...
     66 #define KERNCALL        movq %rcx, %r10; syscall
...

So the answer appears to be yes for native binaries.

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