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  • Subject: Re: an introduction to MI by example II part B
  • From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:46:32 -0600

As the unofficial judge for this, it is still three lines of 'real'
code - as was mine.

Reducing the number of variables only gets you half a point ;-)

--phil


> Well if this is a small-size race (just for fun), here's my entry to
get the caller's library name.
>
> dcl spcptr ?Library    parm;
> dcl dd     Library     bas(?Library) char(10);
> dcl ol     MainList    (?Library) parm ext min(1);
> dcl spcptr ?Mat        auto init(Mat);
> dcl dd     Mat         auto char(12816) bdry(16);
> dcl dd     MatSize     def(Mat) pos(1) bin(4) init(12816);
> dcl dd     Level       def(Mat) pos(9) bin(4);
> dcl dd     Item(2:101) def(Mat) pos(17) char(128);
> dcl sysptr ?Pgm(2:101) def(Item) pos(33) aeo(128);
>
> -- return library name of caller
>
> entry     Main (MainList) ext;   -- start here
> matinvs   ?Mat, *;               -- get call stack
> matptr    ?Mat, ?Pgm(Level);     -- get pointer info
> cybla     Library, Mat(12:10);   -- extract library
> pend;                            -- implicit RTX


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