Gil observed: > I hope the Program Management APIs for this are documented for > the benefit of ISV compiler writers. I wish, with less optimism, > that the SYSLIN format is documented for the benefit of > cross-compiler authors. I was dismayed at SHARE Denver to hear > an IBM representative boast of the design liberty IBM has > gained by making the program object format non-GUPI.
The APIs and SYSLIN formats are, and have been, documented in the Binder Advanced Facilities manual. (You may now resume your optimism.) The internal format of a program object should be of no interest to anyone except the Binder and Program Loader developers, since the APIs provide access to all information you might need. If anything is missing, the APIs can be extended.
