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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-12, T. Kurt Bond <tkurtbond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yay!  Pointing out the unusual PSECT size eventually lead me to line 300
>  in VTIL.MAR:
>         https://github.com/tkurtbond/VTIL/blob/84496c62b545502961bffd788bbaefdb55450d9e/vtil.mar#L300
> Where I saw the assignment "branch = -4".   Thaaaat doesn't look right!  
> Looking at the picture of the source page for that line:
>         https://github.com/tkurtbond/VTIL-pictures/blob/main/vtil.mar/page-10-lines-285-to-334.jpeg
> I see that it should have been "branch = . - 4".  That looks better.
>

On the plus side, at least you didn't miss out both the "." and the "-"
so at least the linker warned you about it. :-)

BTW, I've never seen that linker error before that I can recall...

Simon.

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