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- From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
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- Subject: Re: ETA for SAS 6.2?
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- Date: 14 Jan 93 21:32:07 GMT
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- In article <JRAJA.93Jan14170922@vipunen.hut.fi>, jraja@vipunen.hut.fi (Jarno Tapio Rajahalme) writes:
- |> And __saveds still loads the A4 in the beginning of the function body.
- |> If __saveds is an explicit request to "restore" A4, then why is it
- |> called __saveds? geta4() is just fine in this case. I'd interpret the
- |> __saveds to mean "Make sure that global data can be referenced even
- |> when called from another program".
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- It's called __saveds for historical reasons. I don't know why the
- keyword was originally named that.
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- __saveds does mean exactly what you state there, with the addition
- of one word - "near". "Make sure that NEAR global data can be
- referenced even when called from another program."
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- |> | Address: Jarno Rajahalme | EMail: |
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