Indeed. Prototype sections would be nice, but with multiple tasks in a single address space you wouldn't be able to use them for work areas in reentrant code.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of John [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 17 Sep 2022 to 18 Sep 2022 (#2022-107) Anybody remember TSS assembler's PSECT? Implementation needed help from the TSS program loader and linkage editor. Link to bitsavers TSS Assembler PDF <http://secure-web.cisco.com/1uEksG3celfzheqJ4mJLhsVF84X07lesQlQ_SkXqijA8zt2Y1SIxl83ivo_JnkYGymoyDuPfW8HXCWzhdrXtBsPWlGThbUA8OmjCgAWLShrtawPRzVcCVqoBmHpXbcxYXVwNcUUJc60cUrmDLschVT6moN-R8LigKrvMPHPBYEwlaFxmmxZrLDfIjkGXTLAPljJgxVpRnz66fSkH_zWVx6GxBp6vUTibYbiVLNT1XfikfwTn3MItPHGzkBTnWP1kbXKGcuHj2QmyaC2fSAhwvOfDVJmqz9IS78mNauLEplFCNYU28hHcxiIRxKTCeXDCk8NLzHOYO2fcyx2lSqUNddEH0rIpxNbgA_RP0jLagIe0gCCdStMeAD0Wvl9keFPEFbksW-y2opyfy9K2sKJZ7kH143cai3uUQSX7wrX9hrwkiykwBivXc-z4ib8NrWOtD/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitsavers.org%2Fpdf%2Fibm%2F360%2Ftss%2FGC28-2000-5_Time_Sharing_System_Assembler_Language_Apr76.pdf> IIRC there was a SHARE requirement, since rejected to implement PSECTs. Might be a useful construct for Language Environment above the bar stack.
