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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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