#Unconventional Notation
12-Mar-90 17:12:29
Sb: #24430-#Unconventional Notation
Fm: Richard B. Gilbert[VAX] 73026,2304
To: Ben Klausner 76337,1730
Ben,
Digital Equipment Corporation uses such a convention in their assembly
language coding. <facility-name>_L_<variable> name would designate a
longword (4 bytes) which was used by <facility-name> so that
UCB$_L_MEDIA_TYPE would be a longword in the unit control block which
designated the media type. DECies, please note that I made up this
variable name and don't go looking for it. Other types would be B-byte,
W-word, Q-quadword (8 bytes), V-variable length bit field, etc.