Annotation of researchv10dc/dist/man/v4/man2/indir.2, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .th INDIR II 8/5/73
        !             2: .sh NAME
        !             3: indir \*- indirect system call
        !             4: .sh SYNOPSIS
        !             5: (indir = 0.; not in assembler)
        !             6: .br
        !             7: .ft B
        !             8: sys indir; syscall
        !             9: .ft R
        !            10: .sh DESCRIPTION
        !            11: The system call at the location
        !            12: .it syscall
        !            13: is executed.
        !            14: Execution resumes after the
        !            15: .it indir
        !            16: call.
        !            17: .s3
        !            18: The main purpose of
        !            19: .it indir
        !            20: is to allow a program to
        !            21: store arguments in system calls and execute them
        !            22: out of line in the data segment.
        !            23: This preserves the purity of the text segment.
        !            24: .s3
        !            25: If
        !            26: .it indir
        !            27: is executed indirectly,
        !            28: it is a no-op.
        !            29: .sh "SEE ALSO"
        !            30: \*-
        !            31: .sh DIAGNOSTICS
        !            32: \*-

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