David,

You say that the subroutine linkage is different. Can you tell me where the 
linkage is documented? I'd like to understand how XPLINK linkage works for 
incorporation into some of my routines.

Thanks,
Chuck

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of David Crayford
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ASM calling C or C++ subroutines

That looks good to me. Make sure that you setup the parameter lists 
correctly. C/C++ are call by value languages. The code path for calling 
a routine is just a few instructions. It loads LE control blocks into 
registers and then uses BSM to invoke the routine.

You certainly will need LE if your calling C/C++ code other than Metal/C.

You only need XPLINK if your C/C++ programs are compiled XPLINK. I 
always use XPLINK because it almost always generates faster code but the 
subroutine linkage is very different to OS linkage and you have to take 
that into consideration when debugging.

On 20/08/2014 4:28 AM, Donald Likens wrote:
> I have been looking at the LE documentation now for days and still not sure 
> what I need to do to have my Assembler program call C or C++ programs. I need 
> this interface to be very efficient because I will be calling these 
> subroutines maybe more than a 1,000,000 times a day. What I have come up with 
> is to use CEEPIPI to build the environment.
>
>           LA    R5,PPTBL           GET ADDRESS OF PIPI TABLE
>           ST    R5,@CEXPTBL        CEEXPTBL-ADDR -> PIPI TABLE
>           L     R15,PPRTNPTR       GET ADDRESS OF CEEPIPI ROUTINE
> *                                 INVOKE CEEPIPI ROUTINE
>           CALL  (15),(INITSUB,@CEXPTBL,@SRVRTNS,RUNTMOPT,TOKEN)
>
> I will have three subroutines so I think I need to put each one of these 
> routines in the preinit table.
>
> Now I think I need to use CEEPIPI again when I want to call each subroutine.
>
>           ST    R11,PARM
>           L     R15,PPRTNPTR       GET ADDRESS OF CEEPIPI ROUTINE
>           CALL  (15),(CALLSUB,PTBINDEX,TOKEN,PARM,                      X
>                 SUBRETC,SUBRSNC,SUBFBC)   INVOKE CEEPIPI ROUTINE
>
> Note:
> Note: The C routines have not been created yet, so I can't try these things 
> out.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Do I have it correct?
> 2) Do I even need LE?
> 3) The book talks about XPLINK. I don't quite understand it. Is this 
> something I should explore more?
>
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