[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

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In article <snlh1r$jrr$5 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2021-11-24, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 11/24/2021 8:46 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-11-23, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2) Why are those arguments there?
>>>>
>>>> It is not obvious to me why Macro-32 code would want to use them
>>>> any more than C or Basic code.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Nor to me. In an OS with the proper levels of abstraction, those
>>> hardware-specific registers simply should not be needed (or even
>>> visible) to a function used as the target of what is essentially
>>> just another way of doing an asynchronous callback to a function
>>> within an application.
>>
>> So why did you suggest that it was for Macro-32?
>>
>
>I suggested it was needed because clearly something needs to be manually
>preserved by the programmer in Macro-32 code that simply would not be
>an issue if VMS was based around an higher-level language instead.

Clearly something needs to be learnt by Simon before slinging manure.

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