-- DriverStartChain.mesa (last edited by: McJones on: February 8, 1980 10:11 AM)

DriverStartChain: DEFINITIONS =

BEGIN

-- NOTE: When AR 3536 is fixed, the modules HeadStartChain, DriverStartChain, and StoreDriverStartChain may be replace with single module StartChain.

-- Mechanism used to implement starting extensible set of modules (e.g. heads, drivers, test programs)

-- We refer to a member of the set of modules as a ‘‘link’’; we refer to the module wishing to start the set as the ‘‘master link’’.

-- Each link should export Start with a body consisting simply of a call on Start imported through a second instance of StartChain (e.g. IMPORTS RemainingHeads: StartChain).

-- The master link should export Start with a body which just returns and should also contain a call on Start imported through a second instance of StartChain named EntireStartChain.

-- The machinery is completed with a configuration which sets up a chain of StartChain imports-exports from EntireStartChain, through each of the links, and back to the master link.

Start: PROCEDURE;

-- Start the (rest of the) chain

END.

LOG

Time: January 31, 1980 11:09 AMBy: McJonesAction: Create file