Frank Bennington's wrote:
> While trying to get some old code to work under HP-UX 11.11 with a
> PA-RISC 2.0 CPU-based machine in 64 bit mode I have some assembler
> code that doesn't compile.
> bl $$dyncall,%r31
> The linker then barfs and says that $$dyncall is an unsatisfied
> symbol. but no such symbol in /usr/lib/PA20_64/libmilli.a ...

There is no need for $$dyncall on PA2.0 since there is an instruction
that does exactly that BVE,L.

>it was a monkey style problem solving technique

Yes, looking at a simple example of an indirect call would show that.