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by lilyball 492 days ago
The stable interface to syscalls on Apple platforms is libSystem, which is a dynamic library. Compilers cannot inline syscalls on Apple platforms as that would defeat the whole point of making libSystem the stable ABI. In fact, compilers don't even see libSystem itself when linking, they just see a .tbd file that lists all of libSystem's symbols.