McKown, John wrote:
Is there any reason that anybody can think of for making an ASSEMBLER
program an LE main routine, other than if it invokes some LE subroutines
or COBOL (or other LE-enabled language) subroutines? What about if it
uses the BPX... subroutines to do UNIX work?
More curious than anything else.
Assembler programs do not need to be LE for calling BPX routines.
But one nice side effect of making an Assembler program LE-conforming
is that it can then call C functions directly (you do not need to
invoke a C program that then calls the C functions you're after).
So printf, scanf, and so on can be invoked directly from the
Assembler program. But you don't want the tail wagging the dog,
it's always important to clearly define what the program is to
be doing.
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