[Info-vax] Resurrecting a VAX MACRO program from 1988

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 8/12/2023 11:11 AM, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 6:46:11 AM UTC-4, cao[...] wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 2:30:01 AM UTC+1, gah4 wrote:
>>> Since you have LINK/MAP, you could post the link map.
>>>
>>> It looks like an external symbol problem of some kind, where the linker is trying to modify an address, but the wrong place.
>>>
>>> Interesting, it is just before what seems to be the beginning.
>> There's something weird in the map output anyway.
>> The cluster listings don't make sense and there seem to be a lot of rows for the default cluster.
>> VTILCODE is also being listed as 4Gb in size roughly.
>> I noticed that the beginning of VTILCODE, the initial macro expansion has an offset of -4 and 00001FFC is suspiciously 4 away from 00002000
>> Possibly barking up the wrong tree but I'll have a proper look later.
>>
>> K
> 
> As cao noticed, the MAP file from the most recent link *is* in the https://github.com/tkurtbond/VTIL repository and the direct link is https://github.com/tkurtbond/VTIL/blob/main/vtil.map
> 
> Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

I'm impressed that you somehow crafted a PSECT with a negative length!


Psect Name      Module Name       Base     End           Length
----------      -----------       ----     ---           ------

VTILCODE                        00002000 00001FFB FFFFFFFC ( 4294967292.)
                 VTIL            00002000 00001FFB FFFFFFFC ( 4294967292.)


We'll need John Reagan to weigh in here.

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                    --- Rob