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From: @rice.edu:SXRJC@ALASKA.BITNET (ROBERT J CONCANNON)
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Subject: abend macro
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Date: 5 Oct 89 19:20:58 GMT
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we have a need for a small subroutine callable from cobol that will produce
programmer-specified user abends (and abend codes, u4095 etc) without
hardcoding the specific abend code in the source. in other words, i would
like to pass the required value at runtime to a subroutine containing the
#abend macro. i am only a rudimentary assembler programmer, and the only
ways i see to do this are definitely 'hokey'. the problem is that the
macro expansion requires a non-relocatable variable (it embeds the abend
code inline in the machine code) and anything i want to pass is relocatable.
is there an easy way to circumvent this restriction? thanks, bob concannon,
university of alaska, fairbanks