Thank you John,

I have downloaded it and I will take a look.

Thanks,
Etienne

On Wed, 1 May 2013 15:17:02 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> 
wrote:

><caution>Tooting own horn</caution>
>
>If you're really curious and have the time, you might want to look at my
>contribution to the CBT tape, file #864 from http://cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm or
>you can download it directly via:
>
>ftp://cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT864.zip
>
>This is a lot of .s files which are complete LE enabled HLASM UNIX command
>line programs. Comes complete with a makefile. One gotcha is that the
>source is "free format" and requires that you have the FLOWASM processor
>available. But the code is readable without it. Well, FSVO "readable", of
>course.
>
>I would _strongly_ suggest that you take the time and effort to LE enable
>your assembler subroutines if you're going to use them with an LE main
>routine such as C or COBOL. The debugging from a CEEDUMP is much easier.
>And this will greatly ease making your code reentrant. Which, again, I
>strongly suggest for UNIX programs since UNIX defaults to loading the code
>(TEXT segment) into read-only storage.
>
>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Etienne Thijsse <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to call an assembler function from C:
>>
>> C-code (bla.c):
>>
>> #pragma linkage(BLA,OS)
>> main()
>> {
>>     BLA();
>>     printf("No crash.\n");
>> }
>>
>> Assembler code (bla1.s):
>>
>> BLA     CSECT
>> BLA     MODE  ANY
>>
>>            SAVE   (14,12)
>>            BALR    3,0
>>            USING  *,3
>>            ST        13,SAVE+4      <<<<< crashes here
>>
>> *         todo: add useful code here
>>
>>            L           15,=X'01'
>>            L           13,SAVE+4
>>            RETURN (14,12),RC=(15)
>>
>> SAVE   DS       18F
>>            END
>>
>> So the only code in this assembler source is the "standard linkage" stuff,
>> which I got from the "MVS Assembler Language"  book.
>>
>> I compiled and linked this under OpenMVS like this:
>>
>>   cc bla.c bla1.s
>>
>> which gives me an executable 'a.out' in the HFS.
>>
>> Running this under OpenMVS  crashes in the "ST        13,SAVE+4"  line,
>> SC04. If I comment out that line and the corresponding L13,SAVE+4 line, it
>> does not crash anymore.
>> I don't understand this... This ST line is part of the standard linkage
>> 'protocol'; the area where the ST stores is declared in the SAVE DS 18F
>> line at the bottom --- Why does this crash?
>>
>> What is weirder still is that I can copy a.out to a PDSE member, and
>> submit it with some JCL that has CEE.SCEELIB in its STEPLIB; this does not
>> crash, without SCEELIB it also crashes.
>> Adding CEE.SCEELIB to the STEPLIB environment variable in OpenMVS however
>> does not help, it keeps crashing, SC04.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Etienne
>>
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>Maranatha! <><
>John McKown
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