Dennis Handly <dhandly@convex.hp.com> writes:

> Frank Goenninger 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.

You mean like

COPY gp, save_gp
LDD 16(fp), tmp
LDD 24(fp), gp
BVE,L (tmp), r2

COPY save_gp, gp

???

Thx!
Frank

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