Hi Guys,

I'm about to start porting an app from Linux to FreeBSD, and haven't been able to confirm the kernel calling convention for FreeBSD apps?

Reading the output from gcc, it looks like the normal x86-64 ABI (with rax = function number and 'syscall' to invoke), but gcc seems to be taking some short-cuts with it's generated code?

So does FreeBSD use the standard x86-64 ABI with 'syscall' to invoke the kernel and rax = the function number? (with function numbers from syscalls.master).

eg.

After a lot of testing, FreeBSD uses the x86-64 SYSV ABI, with rax being the function call, and 'syscall' to invoke the call...

Many thanks, Chewy509

I have written a modified elf64 your code. Works fine.
(FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64, fasm 32 bit elf_i386_fbsd libc)

format ELF64
public main

main:
mov rax, 4 ; write
mov rdi, 1; stdout file handle
mov rsi, hello_world; pointer to string
mov rdx, len ; string len
syscall

xor rax, rax ; sys_exit
syscall

hello_world db "Hello World ", 10
len = $-hello_world

with simple

fasm hello64.asm

gcc hello64.o -o hello64

or..
gcc -m64 hello64.o -o hello64

easier than build (ld link) 32 bit in FreeBSD AMD64