Re: Re: standalone code for bootstrapping
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general |
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---In [email protected], <gerhardp@...> wrote : >> 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. > Placing the VTOC after the kernel is absurd. The VTOC is not after the kernel. The kernel is PDOS.SYS. Only the loader (PLOAD) is before the VTOC. > If you have the assembler > version in 0.4, it can scan the VTOC for the data set name (if you want I would like to scan the VTOC, and process relocations, in C rather than assembler. And note that the code is already written and working. The code that is not working satisfactorily is PLOAD self-loading. > it to be independent of PDOS call it SYS1.KERNEL or similar), and > bootstrap your C loader from there. I agree that that could be done, but it is conflicting with my goal of putting as much processing into C instead of assembler as possible. BFN. Paul.