Re: Re: standalone code for bootstrapping

"kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> 16 Mar 2019 15:49:39 +0000

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---In [email protected], <kerravon86@...> wrote :

> Ok. That would work too. But my PLOAD.SYS
> *is* an intermediate loader program, that loads
> PDOS.SYS by name.

And PLOAD.SYS will process relocation
information for PDOS.SYS too. PDOS.SYS
is an MVS executable unloaded with
IEBCOPY. ie a "PE module" as I call it.
PLOAD.SYS is the outcome of a load
module being processed by the
"loadzero" utility.

So PLOAD is definitely a loader, with the
minimum assembler required. I'm just
discussing adding more assembler for
the sole purpose of getting it to load
itself so that the C program is complete.

BFN. Paul.