[Info-vax] Volatile, was: Re: yet another sys$qiow question

VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG
Tue Aug 25 07:34:49 EDT 2015


In article <00AFC216.1A864495 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>In article <zgFbrkJP21g+ at eisner.encompasserve.org>, cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
>>In article <mr792b$f9l$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>[VAXMAN wrote:]
>>
>>>> 	TSTL	IOSB
>>>> 	BNEQ	10$
>>>> 20$:	BRB	20$
>>>> 10$:
>>
>>Actually, to test just the status in VMS you would use TSTW.  But
>>when testing for nonzero TSTL works as well and does not require
>>any extra word extraction code on the newer architectures.
>
>THat's true but Johnny said he defined the IOSB as am int.  The C compiler
>doesn't know that that that contains a word maintaining the status.

Grrr... see what tablet typing can do to your ability to write.

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