On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:06 PM CM Poncelet <[email protected]> wrote:

> The "END <whatever CSECT>" should always be coded to ensure that the
> beginning of "<whatever CSECT>" is also the entry point.
>

That's a pretty broad statement.  I'd say the entry point should always be
specified for main programs, but it's irrelevant for linked-in
subroutines.  btw, it's not required to be the name of a CSECT.

>
> On 21/01/2021 20:54, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
> > Without some kind of explicit ENTRY indicator within the source--like
> END BAMKAPP--there was no ENTRY point generated in the app module. Hence
> specifying ENTRY BANKAPP to the linker got 'not found'. Maybe today's
> binder takes care of this, but in the 80s we could not find an obvious way
> to solve it.
> >
> > Given more time we might have come to a resolution, but at the time we
> were stumped.
> >
> > .
>
Well, I can't make sense of that, but it's hard to debug an ancient issue
based entirely on someone's recollection. Not that you asked anyone to, so
I'm not :-)

sas

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