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tomtomtom777 • today at 1:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I see, but why were they numbered differently? Why not use the same numbers?


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guitmz • today at 1:08 PM

As far as I know, the numbers were assigned independently by each port's developers in the 90s as they added calls in their own order. Then it became a frozen ABI nobody could ever renumber, and couldn't have been identical anyway since arches need different syscall variants for things like 32bit vs 64bit types