In a recent note, Farley, Peter x23353 said:
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:10:25 -0400
>
> Well, he's not the only graybeard who didn't get that memo. I missed it
> too. I just looked it up, and Ed is correct -- IDENTIFY *must* specify an
> address within an already-loaded/fetched/etc. program.
>
I thought there was an out: something like if you set the sign
bit you can use any address. But you must be APF authorized to
do it.
> Now why'd they go and do that? That means I can't use that old CompSci
> trick of compile-to-memory-and-attach-task any more. Shucks. I remember
> when I did that with Fortran arrays in college.
>
I either used or imagined ATTACHing a little glue module:
L R15,0(,R1)
LA R1,4(,R1)
BR R15
... and passing the entry point address as an extra first parameter.
-- gil
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