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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." )
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> 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.
Paul
The Lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that no one
learns the lessons that history teaches us.
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