gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (01/28/91)
I forget who it was to whom I sent a description of the COP usage by ORCA for debugging, but at the time I flagged COP 5 as uncertain from the confusing description in the ORCA/Desktop manual. I asked Mike Westerfield about this on AOL and he says that the COP 5 instruction is followed by the symbol table, not by nothing as I had guessed. The first word (2 bytes) of the symbol table is the displacement to the end of the table; this is enough information to allow you to skip over it, which was the application of interest. By the way, it would be more consistent with the other COP usage if COP 5 were followed by a POINTER to the symbol table rather than the actual table, so if it turns out that the description I gave still isn't right, try that possibility next.