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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] asm helper routines in v7
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 16:38:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2NS9-zYm1yO00rFrNrPOYaPkS211=S4xw8QCq2FaoO6Pw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10197622-30fe-7553-2f2d-edc9637ff489@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 3:38 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Is mesg or an equivalent available in v7?
>
its not part of the C stdio library and by te

> 2. If not, what was the v7 way of putting strings out?
>
_puts   declared as an external

> 3. Why aren't the system call names defined?
>
Ah .. you want the DEC assembler ;-)    By the time of V5/V6 assembler is
starting to have less importance and by V7, little if anything is left.

> 4. What was the v7 way of naming system calls?
>
_XXX  where XXX is the system call declared as a global.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-04 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-04 20:37 Will Senn
2022-01-04 21:12 ` Dan Cross
2022-01-04 21:24   ` Will Senn
2022-01-04 21:28     ` Warner Losh
2022-01-05 17:35       ` Dan Cross
2022-01-04 21:38 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2022-01-06  3:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-01-06  3:37 ` Warner Losh
2022-01-06 16:00 ` Clem Cole

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