[Info-vax] TCP/IP V5.6 ECO 4 caveat...

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In article <edc1b385-07b4-4dd0-8895-60ffbc9bd1eb at s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> writes:
>On 5 Nov., 11:22, "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om... at BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote:
>> Jur van der Burg wrote:
>>
>> > I have a hard time believing that. IOC$SEARCHDEV calls
>> > IOC_STD$SEARCHDEV which calls IOC$SEARCH. The last routine
>> > preserves R4, the first two don't use it. This is from the
>> > Alpha V8.3 listings. Which version are we talking about?
>>
>> Jur, =A0isn't the point Brian is making that ECO 4 seems to
>> have introduced "something untoward" ? =A0I've always found
>> that one has to be careful that the source listings match
>> what is actually there, given that the listings are often
>> superseded by ECO kits.
>>
>
>A TCPIP ECO can not have changed routines, which live in an OpenVMS
>execlet (like IOC$SEARCH in IO_ROUTINES.EXE). This IOC$SEARCH code has
>most likely not been touched at all since 1996.

I didn't say that now, did I?


>As the register value is being saved on the stack, this opens up
>another way of corruption.

Not.  

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