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

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

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.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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