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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-31 21:30:44 +0000, hb said:

> On 5/31/21 10:26 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> There is some related support present (INSTRUCTION_MB, EVAX_IMB, etc) 
>> which certainly implies self-modifying code does exist.
> 
> It implies that self-modifying code can be written. The main purpose of 
> these instructions is to ensure that the I-cache is updated after code 
> from the image was read/paged into memory and is about to be executed.

And DEC et al would have gotten off its collective arse to create that 
API if there wasn't a direct need?


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