[Info-vax] BASIC and AST routines

[Andrew Commons]

On Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at 12:37:30 pm UTC+10:30, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 11/30/21 6:37 PM, Andrew Commons wrote: 
> > You can find a complete official example in BASIC here: 
> > 
> > http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$axpdocdec001/opsys/vmsos721/5935/5935pro_015.html#5935disable_broadcast_trapping 
> >
> I already posted that way up-thread a couple of weeks ago: 
> 
> <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/TbtTpsImDnY/m/_b1WRX9KAAAJ> 
> 
> along with a note that the example does not work out of the box on 
> Itanium, or (presumably) x86_64. Function signatures are more strict on 
> non-VAX and non-Alpha and you can't just pretend that a subroutine and a 
> function are the same thing. But with minor fixes, and as far as 
> handling AST parameters, it's an example that works.

Craig, sorry, missed that amongst all the off-topic posts.