[Info-vax] How much of VMS is still in MACRO-32?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-31, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op maandag 31 mei 2021 om 05:19:19 UTC+2 schreef Dave Froble:
>> I'm curious. Do you have any tools that can pinpoint all references to 
>> a particular field or argument? If not, did you attempt to produce such 
>> a tool? 
>
> SEARCH? :-)
>
> Seriously, having the structure name repeated in each field name helps a lot with this. Consider a field simply called "id" in a structure "employee". "SEARCH *.* id" would likely turn up fields called "id" in various different structures, loose variables called "id", etc. Having that field called emp$l_id makes for a much more meaningful result from "SEARCH *.* emp$l_id".
>
> Pinpointing references to an argument to a procedure written in Macro requires following the logic, as the argument may be stored on the stack, moved to a different register, etc.
>

Is there any self-modifying code in VMS ? (I hope the answer to that
is no, BTW. :-))

Simon.

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