[Info-vax] Calling standards, was: Re: Byte range locking - was Re: Oracle

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/23/16 1:59 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <e9m017F7ab9U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> As I said, I don't have a manual handy.  I am aware that the VAX
>> had descriptors, but I would be extremely surprised if the .ASCIZ
>> and .PRINT weren't still there again, primarily for backwards
>> compatibility.
>
>    VAX macro has an .ASCIZ directive.  Never had any use for it, even
>    after we started doing C.  Can't seem to find a .PRINT directive, but
>    I haven't done an exhaustive search.
>

Maybe it's just me, but if they have a directive specifically to create
a null terminated string they probably expected people to use it.

bill