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- From: mheiskan@hut.fi (Mika Heiskanen)
- Subject: Re: Sytem RPL : Problem with entries
- In-Reply-To: akcs.levenson@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com's message of Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:40:02 GMT
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 11:20:06
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- In article <2aa3f375.1640.1comp.sys.hp48.1@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com> akcs.levenson@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (william j. levenson) writes:
-
- > I'm not sure that the entries3 files are formatted the same as the HP
- > provided entries.a file. If this is true, you cannot use the entries3
- > stuff with the sasm program provided by HP.
-
- From entriees.doc (included in the compressed file):
-
- >>I will probably edit a file for RPLTOOLS too (disregarding useless
- >>points). I will post it to the net if/when I do it. I might change some
- >>of the names then, since there are some illegal names used now.
- >
- >I tried this but it was too much work. Hacking is more fun. :)
- >
- >If somebody else does this, please post it to the net.
-
- Never got it done :(
-
- Main reason for this is that I have named many key routines so badly that
- I often have to resort to the comments to see what it does. This is not
- very nice for any programmer.
-
- > Furthermore, if you can get the entries3 file to work with sasm, your
- > code will not be very transportable. By this I mean that people with
- > only entries.a will not be able to compile your code. If that doesn't
- > matter to you, that's fine. I use only the entries in the entries.a file
- > for several reasons:
- > 1) code transportability
- > 2) entries.a are the "supported" commands from HP
-
- I posted to feedbackto.hp in hp bbs asking them to publish the names they
- use for the unsupported entries. Especially programming any symbolic/meta
- handling programs with supported entries only is a pain, but there are
- *lots* of unsupported meta handling entries. I don't have high hopes about
- HP publishing a list though.
-
- > 3) I can call other entrie points by thier addresses, which also
- > serves to deliniate them from the "supported" entrie points
-
- This is enough if you don't need many of the unsupported entries. I am
- however programming a library now which uses *a lot* the unsupported
- entries. Ever gotten furious about one more DEFINE? ;)
-
- > I just use the entries3 file for a reference table of entrie points that
- > others have "discovered". My thanks to the autor of these lists (M.
- > Heiskenan, I think - sorry if that's spelled wrong).
-
- This has been an enlightening experience, publishing a list of names you
- want to change later... If there is enough interest though, I will make a
- final pass through all the entries and try to give a more descriptive name,
- then collecting the goodies to a file in entries.a format and leave it like
- that. Thus we would have one commonly used entries.a2 file for additional
- commands. Thus one more SEARCH entries.o2 for the compiler should do.
-
- Any suggestions, ideas? You can email me at:
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