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404B FixIOArea

Stub   MON 404B (260 decimal) · Mnemonic IOFIX · Group: Input and Output Monitor Calls (manual section 2.5)

Available from: All programs (manual compatibility box)

Emulation source: src/handlers/mon_404B_FixIOArea.c

Description

Fixes an address area in a domain in physical memory. The memory area can be used for later input and output monitor calls, e.g. ReadFromFile or WriteTofile.

  • Use MemoryUnFix to release the pages.
  • The pages are released when the domain terminates.

Parameters

Name Type Direction Description
FirstAddress INTEGER In Start address in the domain.
SizeOfArea INTEGER In Number of bytes to fix.

Direction: In = the program supplies the value, Out = the call returns it, In/Out = both.

See also

FixScattered, FixContiguous, FixInMemory, and MemoryAllocation

Compatibility

Machines Users Programs
ND-500 All users All programs

The manual's compatibility box for this call, word for word.

Yes/no fields from the YAML extraction (not in the manual's words):

ND-100 ND-500 User programs RT programs System programs
No Yes No No No

Examples

From the manual (OCR text, not corrected).

INTEGER : FirstAddress, SizeOfArea
...
Monitor_Call('FixIOArea', FirstAddress, SizeOfArea)
INTEGER FirstAddress, SizeOfArea
...
Monitor_Call('FixIOArea', FirstAddress, SizeOfArea)
FirstAddress, SizeOfArea : LONGINT;
...
FixIOArea(FirstAddress, SizeOfArea);
01 FirstAddress COMP.
01 SizeOfArea COMP.
...
MONITOR-CALL "FixIOArea" USING FirstAddress, SizeOfArea.
Buffer : W BLOCK 1000B
SizeOfArea : W BLOCK 1
FixIOArea : EQU 37B9 + 404B
...
CALLG FixIOArea, 2, Buffer, SizeOfArea

ndmonlib implementation

Stub Registered MON_STATUS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: the handler is a stub. mon_dispatch() in src/core/mon_dispatch.c reports the call as unimplemented without calling it.

Handler mon_404B_FixIOArea
Code lines 7 (non-blank, non-comment lines in the file)

Source

SINTRAN III Monitor Calls (ND-860228.2 EN), page 205.