Input conventions

Load modules to be processed in a single execution of the binder must conform with a number of input conventions. Violations of the following are treated as errors by the binder:

• All the ESD records must precede the text records.
• The end of every load module must be marked by an EOM flag.
• RLD items must appear after the text record containing the adcons which they describe.
• All SYM records must be placed at the beginning of the load module.
• During a single execution of the binder, if two or more control sections having the same name are read in, only the first control section is accepted; the subsequent control sections are deleted
• The binder interprets common (CM) entries in the ESD (blank or with the same name) as references to a single control section whose length is the maximum length specified in the CM items of that name (or blank). No text can be contained in a common control section