On 21.01.2012 20:12, Paul Robinson wrote:
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Sven Barth wrote (quoting me):
That (PASCALMAIN) will have to change, the object file format for 370 machines
limits a CSECT to 8 characters, with the
optional characters @ # and $. So I might call it MAIN or possibly #MAIN. (On
the PDP/11, most operating systems (RT-11,
RSTS/E, RSX) defined the main program in any language as ".MAIN." )
If I understand you correctly, then you might confuse label names with section
names.
No, I know exactly what I mean. Label and section names are under the same
rules in an assembler program on the 370, and a CSECT in 370 Assembly language
THENAME CSECT
is equivalent to
Procedure THENAME;
(* in Pascal *)
SUBROUTINE THENAME
C in Fortran
000010 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000020 PROGRAM-ID. THENAME.
000030* In Cobol
int thename(void) {
/* In C */
}Excepting, of course, for the brain-dead moronic behavior of assigning
case-sensitivity to identifiers in C.
This is something you'll definitely need to investigate, because the
mangled Pascal identifers (for variables, procedures, etc.) are normally
MUCH longer than 8 characters. For procedures they contain the unit
name, the procedure's name and the types of all arguments (for
overloading). You can see this if you compile a program with the "-al"
argument, which will tell the compiler to leave the assembler files so
you can take a look at them (normally called "unitname.s").
Another possibility would be to research whether there are other
assemblers which don't have that restriction. Is there C++ available for
this system? If so you can check what that uses as an assembler, because
C++ uses mangled names as well.
Regards,
Sven
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