In <4e53953e.6090...@mentor-services.com>, on 08/23/2011
at 07:55 AM, Mike Myers <m...@mentor-services.com> said:
>Yes,
No.
>Yes, as I recall, SYNC (SVC 12) was designed to invoke exit
>routines on behalf of system routines (like OPEN, CLOSE, etc.),
>and therefore calls on the program by its address (found in some
>exit list or exit pointer),
True but irrelevant.
>whereas LINK (SVC 6) calls out a program by name (as Binyamin says)
>and was intended for calling separately compiled program
>subroutines, which would have a CDE (either created by the LOAD or
>LINK SVC routine).
None of which prevents SYNCH from creating a CDE.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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