perfect function doesn’t exis- 👇

@GromBeestje @nixCraft

This is a true masterwork of wrongness.

@GromBeestje @nixCraft

Okay, I just googled it and it's real. I don't know whether to be delighted or horrified.

@suetanvil @nixCraft I recall reading these function were there to test the performance of userland-kernel calls.

@GromBeestje @nixCraft

That makes sense. My idle speculation was that they were there as the entry points to the hardware or kernel equivalents of debugging printfs, FWIW.