MON 042B (octal) — Undocumented (no symbol)¶
A low ND-100 monitor call (< 0400B) with no direct level-14 handler: GOTAB[42B] = 000000.
The zero slot means MON 042B is a fall-through — it is serviced by the resident second-level
dispatch (MFELL → CALLPROC), not by a dedicated entry stub. No code body is carved, so there is
no per-call .ASM/.pseudo.c; this document records the proven absence.
Status: dispatch head byte-proven (GOTAB[42B] = 000000, a real SINTRAN L byte pair, matching a
live read of the running system); no worker link — the body lives in the uncarved CALLPROC
overlay and cannot be pinned to a carved byte range (see Honest caveats).
All addresses/values are octal.
- No per-call disassembly: MON 042B is a fall-through (
GOTAB[42B] = 000000); there is no entry stub or worker to disassemble in the carved set, so no042B-Undocumented.ASMis fabricated. - Bytes live once in the canonical segment layer:
../../segments-ref/.
Dispatch path¶
flowchart LR
A["User program<br/>MON 42B"] --> B["ENT14 level-14<br/>T = MON number"]
B --> C["GOTAB[42B] = 000000<br/>(byte + live proven)"]
C -.uncarved CALLPROC.-> D["MFELL -> CALLPROC<br/>second-level dispatch"]
D --> E["handler body in uncarved<br/>resident overlay (S3MPIT/S3RPIT)"]
class A blue
class B,C teal
class D,E green
classDef blue fill:#E3F2FD,stroke:#0D47A1,color:#0D47A1
classDef teal fill:#E0F7FA,stroke:#00838F,color:#00838F
classDef green fill:#E8F5E9,stroke:#2E7D32,color:#2E7D32
The dashed hop (C ⇢ D) is the resident MFELL/CALLPROC second-level dispatch — it is not
present in any carved segment, so it is the one link that cannot be followed statically. A
000000 GOTAB slot is fall-through, NOT illegal: MON 14B (OUTBT), a real heavily-used call,
also carries GOTAB[14B] = 000000.
Code location (dispatch path)¶
Every row that has bytes is a real region you can open. Byte offset = (addr − loadbase) in octal
words × 2. GOTAB base = 071233B in commoncode (load 0); entry address = 071233B + MON# = 071275B.
| Role | Segment (full disasm) | Addr range (octal) | Byte offset | Symbol | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOTAB[42] dispatch word | commoncode.asm · .hex | 071275B (1 word) |
58746 | GOTAB+42B = 000000 |
VERIFIED (= 000000, fall-through) |
| resident CALLPROC bridge | — (uncarved) | — | — | MFELL → CALLPROC |
UNVERIFIED (outside carved byte set) |
| fall-through handler body | — (uncarved) | — | — | S3MPIT/S3RPIT overlay | UNVERIFIED (not resolvable) |
Verify by hand: grep '^71275 ' ../../segments-ref/SINTRAN-DATA_commoncode/SINTRAN-DATA_commoncode.hex
→ byte offset 58746; then
dd if=../../../resident/SINTRAN-DATA_commoncode.bin bs=1 skip=58746 count=2 2>/dev/null | od -An -tx1
→ 00 00 (= octal 000000, the fall-through GOTAB slot).
Instruction walkthrough¶
There is no instruction body to walk — that is the point of this entry. Level-14 dispatch
(ENT14) loads the MON number into T, indexes GOTAB at 071233B + 42B = 071275B, and reads
000000. A zero handler address is the sentinel that routes the call into the second-level
fall-through (MFELL → CALLPROC) instead of jumping to a direct level-14 stub. The CALLPROC
second-level table, and the ultimate handler body it selects, live in the memory-resident
S3MPIT/S3RPIT overlay whose ENT14/MCALL code pages are not backed in the available
carves, so MON 042B's body has no resolvable address from what we have. No .ASM/.pseudo.c
is provided rather than fabricate one.
Parameter / register contract¶
| Reg / field | Dir | Meaning | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
T |
in | MON number (42B) used to index GOTAB |
VERIFIED (dispatch mechanism) |
GOTAB[42B] |
internal | 000000 — fall-through sentinel, not a handler address |
VERIFIED (bytes) |
A/X/D |
in/out | caller argument/return convention | UNKNOWN — defined by the uncarved CALLPROC handler, not byte-proven |
| skip return | out | success/error skip convention | UNKNOWN — set by the uncarved handler body |
The user-visible register convention lives entirely in the uncarved CALLPROC frame and the
handler body it dispatches, so nothing beyond the dispatch mechanism is byte-proven here.
Honest caveats¶
What is byte-proven: GOTAB[42B] = 000000 — a real SINTRAN L byte pair in
resident/SINTRAN-DATA_commoncode.bin at virtual 071275B (byte offset 58746), matching a
live-DAP read of a booted L system. That zero is a genuine fall-through sentinel, not an
illegal/undefined call: even-numbered low monitor calls carry 000000 (serviced by the fall-through)
while odd-numbered ones (1B..161B) carry direct entry stubs in the S3RPIT 120xxx block.
What is NOT proven: MON 042B's actual handler body. The MFELL → CALLPROC second-level dispatch
that services fall-through calls is in the memory-resident S3MPIT/S3RPIT overlay whose
ENT14/MCALL code pages are not populated in the available carves, so 042B's body cannot be pinned
to an address. It is neither confirmed present nor proven absent — it is outside the carved byte
set. The "Undocumented"/TSS-carry-over provenance sometimes attached to this call is not encoded in
any source and is not confirmed. Recovering the body needs a live trace (break at the CALLPROC
dispatch on a real MON 42B and single-step to the handler) or a carve of the resident overlay.
There is no ANALYSIS-vs-DISPATCH contradiction to reconcile: earlier notes that called GOTAB
"unreadable/absent from every carve" were wrong — GOTAB is fully present in commoncode.bin; it is
042B's fall-through body, not the table, that is missing.
Method: ../../../../../EXTRACTING-RESIDENT-CODE.md §5/7/8 · dispatch reality: ../../TASK-05-mismatches.md · master map: ../../MON-CALL-INDEX.md.