Re: kern/53261: kernel crash during test run

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/53261; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/53261: kernel crash during test run
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 16:27:07 +0200

 On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 02:05:00PM +0000, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
 >  I need to repeat that I agree that it's not optimal, if it works it's
 >  not portable.
 
 Our documentation states that it is wrong. Allowing it to work by pure
 luck on i386 just hides the problem, where otherwise tests would
 quickly show the culprit.
 
 Why is it so difficult to call __syscall instead of syscall for the few
 cases where it is need? I completly don't get your point.
 
 Martin