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  1. Glossary
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  4. .. keep this file sorted lexicographically
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  6. .. glossary::
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  8.    PAL
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  9.       Platform Adaptation Layer
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  11.       PAL is the layer of Graphene that implements a narrow Drawbridge-like ABI
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  12.       interface (with function names starting with the `Dk` prefix)
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  14.       .. seealso::
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  16.          https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/asplos2011-drawbridge.pdf
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  18.       Whenever Graphene requires a service from the host platform (memory
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  19.       allocation, thread management and synchronization, file system and network
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  20.       stacks, etc.), it calls the corresponding PAL functionality. The PAL ABI
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  21.       is host-platform agnostic and is backed by the host-platform specific PAL,
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  22.       for example, the Linux-SGX PAL.
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  24.    SGX
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  25.       Software Guard Extensions is a set of instructions on Intel processors.
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  26.       See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions.
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