[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-24, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <snlerq$jrr$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>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 ?
>
> Stop there!  You stated crap, pure unadulterated crap!  Answer the initial
> question!  You're trying to drag this off the main street and down a side 
> alley where it'll be lost amongst the riff-raff.
>

No, I am not. Are the arguments passed to the AST because the Macro-32
programmer has to manually preserve them in some cases ?

The same kind of thing that a programmer would never have to worry
about if the lowest supported language on VMS was not Macro-32 ?

Simon.

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