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37 .Nd architecture-dependent system call
43 .Fn sysarch "int number" "void *args"
48 performs the architecture-dependent function
51 with the arguments specified by the
57 is a pointer to a structure defining the actual
58 arguments of the function.
59 Symbolic constants and argument structures
60 for the architecture-dependent
61 functions can be found in the header file
62 .In machine/sysarch.h .
66 system call should never be called directly by
68 Instead, they should access
69 its functions using the architecture-dependent
72 See the manual pages for specific architecture-dependent system calls
73 for information about their return values.
75 .Xr i386_get_ioperm 2 ,
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