Win32 is the stable Linux ABI

Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by immibis on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:50AM (#46442781)

So now you're talking about the ntdll.dll ABI instead of the kernel ABI. ntdll.dll is not the kernel.

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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by sedatk on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:48PM (#46446424)

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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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI by dcrazy on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:15PM (#46446712)

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

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