[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

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In article <snlh8f$jrr$6 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2021-11-24, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <snlerq$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 ?

Bzzzt!  Sorry, you've used up all of your slither-arounds and we now have
to ask you to answer the oringinal question.  Remember, you'd stated with
authority that is was because Macro-32 couldn't function without.

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