What do the files in the DIRECV directory do?
They are to do with “Static Mode Shared Libraries” R3POFH has been around since at least rev 15. It is the Ring 3 Pointer Fault Handler. It is designed to be called for static mode shared libraries to snap dynamic links at runtime. HASHER.FTN is the FORTRAN program which reads a list of shared library entrypoints as input, and produces a hash table for R3POFH to search (HTAB.INS.PMA) of the entrypoints. (Most of the stuff in DIRECV is related to static mode shared libraries.) The program MAIN.PMA is used to “install” shared libraries into the static mode library table in PRIMOS. The R3POFH entry is put into a table corresponding to the shared library “number” used at install time (either pre-allocated for most Prime supported shared libraries, or the first unused entry used for user libraries). • Q) 2.9 What’s a V-Mode .SAVE file? Before BIND came along most runfiles had to be large unwieldy segment directories if you wanted to use V-Mode. If you could cope with R-mode you could use th
