[fpc-devel] Re: On a port of Free Pascal to the IBM 370

[waldo kitty]

On 1/21/2012 15:49, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Paul Robinson wrote:
>
>  >>> 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." )
>  >>
>  >> 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
>
> I suspect that this will depend on the target operating system, so the Linux ABI
> may differ from e.g. MUSIC/SP.

ABI means what? for those of us reading and trying to keep up ;) this might even 
be something new to those attempting to work on such a port task ;)