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sedatkyesterday at 5:48 PM1 replyview on HN

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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dcrazyyesterday at 6:15 PM

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