From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:49 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> When I skipped SYS$PUBLIC_VECTORS.EXE from the link VMS linker
> complained about missine SYS$IMGSTA, so for a moment I thought that
> slot number 282 corresponds to SYS$IMGSTA. But testing shows that
> SYS$IMGSTA corresponds to slot 52 and SYS$NATIVE_TO_TRANSLATED
> indeed corresponds to slot 282.

SYS$IMGSTA is set as the program transfer address ahead of your actual
program transfer address unless you do LINK/NODEBUG, as I recall.
Without this option, the linker includes source line-number
information, but not full debug symbol tables.

If you do RUN/DEBUG, then SYS$IMGSTA detects this and starts up the
debugger instead of your actual mainline. If /DEBUG is not specified
on RUN, then it goes to your actual mainline.

With LINK/DEBUG, I think you get full debugger symbols in your image,
and a flag setting that tells SYS$IMGSTA to always go to the debugger
(unless you do RUN/NODEBUG? I think that was it.)

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