Assembler program calling a 'C' program with mixed case long names

[Steve Austin]

Hello,

Is it possible to persuade the assembler to create mixed case ESD names?
The GOFF option allows long names, but the ESD entries are upper case.

Thanks

Steve

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[Steve Comstock]

Steve Austin wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Is it possible to persuade the assembler to create mixed case ESD names?
> The GOFF option allows long names, but the ESD entries are upper case.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Steve

Look at the Assembler 'alias' statement:

LOAD alias c'dllload'

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[Binyamin Dissen]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:55:12 -0000 Steve Austin <steve....@MACRO4.COM>
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:>Is it possible to persuade the assembler to create mixed case ESD names?

:>The GOFF option allows long names, but the ESD entries are upper case.

Look at the assembler ALIAS statement.

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> case long names
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to persuade the assembler to create mixed case
> ESD names?
> The GOFF option allows long names, but the ESD entries are
> upper case.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve

I think:

MYCSECT CSECT
MYCSECT ALIAS C'MyCsect'

Seemed to work for me in HLASM 1.6 on z/OS 1.10.

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[john gilmore]

You can use the ALIAS statement, which is documented with a relevant example in the HLASM LR, to do what you want to do, e.g., generate the external reference EtaoinShrdlu instead of ETAOINSHRDLU.

John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

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[Steve Austin]

Thanks for all your responses. I am now fighting with the pre-linker; it
does not pick up the long mixed case names I specified using alias
statements.

Steve

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[Thomas David Rivers]

Hi Steve,

Use the ALIAS command to get precisely the letter's you'd like
in the ESD name.

For example:

NAME ALIAS C'name'
NAME CSECT
END

creates a csect that has the letters "name" in the object deck.

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[Thomas David Rivers]

Steve Austin wrote:
> Thanks for all your responses. I am now fighting with the pre-linker; it
> does not pick up the long mixed case names I specified using alias
> statements.
>
> Steve
>
>

Steve,

When you say "pick up" - what do you mean?

And, which pre-linker is this?

- Dave Rivers -

[David Crayford]

You can't use the pre-linker with GOFF.

If I were you I would ditch the pre-linker. It's functionally stabalized
and the binder does everything you need and more. Only use the
pre-linker if you want to use load modules in a PDS.

[Steve Austin]

Hello Dave,

I was hoping the pre-linker would resolve the long names I specified on
the call to the 8 byte upper case names to which it renames the target
routines, but it does not. To get around this I am using CHANGE
statements in the linkedit step.

I'm doing this in order to link the program into a PDS rather than a
PDSE.

Is there something I'm missing?

The pre-linker I'm using is EDCPRLNK.

Thanks

Steve

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Steve,

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[Steve Austin]

Thanks

I should have explained that I'm using the pre-linker so that I can link
to a PDS.

[David Crayford]

Steve Austin wrote:
> Thanks
>
> I should have explained that I'm using the pre-linker so that I can link
> to a PDS.
>

Out of curiosity why are you tied to a PDS? You will get much better
mileage from a PDSE. GOFF, XPLINK, programs > 16MB and future features
that will only be supported by PDSE program objects.

[Steve Austin]

The code I am writing is a prototype, but it is intended that something
like it will be shipped to customers in time.
I don't know that PDSE usage will be an issue to anyone, but experiece
suggests that someone will at least question the requirement, so for the
time being I'm avoiding using a PDSE.

[Charles Mills]

I hear the same thing from customers: "ooh, I don't like PDSE's."

(cf. John McKown's post this morning on why JCL continues to be so bad.)

Charles