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Modula Definition | 1985-04-25 | 1.5 KB | 48 lines |
- DEFINITION MODULE Loader;
- (***********************)
-
- (* overlay loader for the Modula system *)
-
- (* Vers. 01.11. 1983 P. Fink, ETH *)
-
- FROM SYSTEM IMPORT ADDRESS;
- EXPORT QUALIFIED Call,
- Load, Unload;
-
- PROCEDURE Call
- (VAR OvName : ARRAY OF CHAR;
- VAR result : INTEGER);
- (* load and execute overlay OvName, as a subroutine *)
- (* OvName can be a module name (max 11 chars significant), or a file name
- (form dev:rep:rep:name.ext).
- Done if: loading, and possibly execution, are errorfree.
- default extension for the load file search will be .LOD
- default dev: will be <nothing>, and alternate dev: is MODLIB:
- result is zero, when everything was ok, otherwise an errornumber
- (system-dependent) *)
-
-
- (* more sophisticated functions: (not yet implemented) *)
- (* definitely not required for the compiler ! *)
- (* INTENDED FOR:
- management of several independent loaded modules.
- useful in M3 for the O.S., on the SMAKY 8 for XS-1.
- consistency is important. it is an error to load when the
- base layer is not loaded, or to unload when overlays are
- still loaded.
- The identification of the base layer for an overlay is
- done at link time.
- specs written by me (PF) *)
-
-
- PROCEDURE Load (VAR ovname : ARRAY OF CHAR; VAR reference: ADDRESS;
- VAR error : INTEGER);
- (* load overlay ovname into memory, and execute its initialization part.
- does not unload it. code and data remain in memory *)
-
- PROCEDURE Unload (reference: ADDRESS; VAR error: INTEGER);
- (* unload the referenced overlay *)
-
- END Loader.
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