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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:33:08 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] nm on Third Edition .o files?
Message-ID: <20161219213308.DCEB018C09D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: "Steve Johnson"

    > The number on the left is a PDP-11 address, probably for some kind of
    > control register.

It's the Processor Status Word, which contained the CPU's hardware priority
level, condition codes, etc.

    > That's a construction that's left over from B.

I wonder why it was written as "0177776->integ", rather than "*017776"?
Probably the former allowed the C compiler to work out what size the operand
was. (BTW, 'integ' was declared in a structure declaration as follows:

    struct {
	int	integ;
    };

(Did the code looked at actually say "0177776->int"? The compiler might have
barfed on a reserved keyword being used like that.)

       Noel