[Info-vax] VMS Farewell message?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
(snip)
 
> I would instead patch the instruction which references that string to point
> to a different address (in the patch area) at which you place whatever string
> you want.

They still put patch areas in code?

As you said yesterday, you are somewhat older than I am.
I do remember stories about patch areas, and maybe even saw
some in older assembly code.  

I also remember the stories about patching OS/360 object decks.
Each TXT card has an address and length, and later cards will
overwrite earlier cards.  Sometimes that would require a patch
area, so that there was something to overwrite.

But that was when system code was all written in assembler.
 
> But maybe the VMS debugger is not sophisticated enough for that?

-- glen