[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/24/2021 8:31 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-23, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <snjcd1$9hn$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> That information is only needed because the lowest supported application
>>> language on VMS is Macro-32 and not C (or another comparable low-level
>>> language).
>>
>> You're slinging your BULLSHIT yet again.  Macro-32 has no inherent need
>> or want to know R0, R1, the PC at AST delivery or the PS/PSL.  As I have
>> requested previously, if you want to be slinging manure in here, please
>> show us your shovel.
> 
> Fine. So why are these architecture-specific registers passed to what
> is essentially a callback function in a normal application program
> and why do those registers need to be visible from that same callback
> function ?

So far there has only been one guess: yours - that it is to
support applications in Macro-32. And that explanation does
not make any sense as Macro-32 applications do not need info
that C applications does not.

Arne