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PRODUCT:    OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENT:  ALPHA_MACRO.EXE - AMACRO

SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPAMAC02_070
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  ALPAMAC01_070
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  10710 Blocks

     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V7.0
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes

     Installation Rating:   3 - To be installed on all systems running
                                the listed versions of OpenVMS which
                                are experiencing the problems described.

     NOTE:  In order to receive the full fixes listed in this kit,
            the following remedial kits also need to be installed:

                 None.


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for ALPHA_MACRO.EXE on OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.
This kit addresses the following problems:

Problems addressed in ALPAMAC02_070:

  o  MACRO source code containing INSV instructions can access
     violate when the value of the position operand goes negative.
     This will correct the generated code so that the operation is
     the same as on OpenVMS VAX.  EXTZV and EXTV generation are
     similarly afflicted.

  o  Code containing two arithmetic, logical, or bitwise byte/word
     operands causes the compiler to access violate.  Even if an
     access violation did not occur, the current flow of control
     in the code generator would cause the compiler to generate
     inappropriate load-locked store-conditional sequences.  This
     behavior is governed by the use of /preserve=(atomicity) or
     /preserve=(granularity).


Problems addressed in ALPAMAC01_070:

  o  AMACRO is destroying one of the argument registers on a call when
     temporary registers are in short supply.


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OPENVMS  database.  To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'ALPAMAC02_070' or 'ALPAMAC'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

     [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION NOTES:

In order for the corrections in this kit to take effect, the system
must be rebooted.  If the system is a member of a VMScluster, the
entire cluster should be rebooted.
  
  ==========================================================================
  |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
  | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | ALPHA_MACRO.EXE            | 3A8449FB | V2.2-19         | 11-OCT-1996  |
  |                                       |                 | 15:01:05.54  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+