Example
The following example shows the control statements that instruct the OS/360 Linkage Editor to link an overlay program, indented to show structure:
INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD1) INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD2) OVERLAY A INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD3) OVERLAY AA INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD4) INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD5) OVERLAY AB INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD6) OVERLAY B INCLUDE SYSLIB(MOD7) +--------------+ | Root Segment | | MOD1, MOD2 | +--------------+ | +----------+----------+ | | +-------------+ +-------------+ | Overlay A | | Overlay B | | MOD3 | | MOD7 | +-------------+ +-------------+ | +--------+--------+ | | +-------------+ +-------------+ | Overlay AA | | Overlay AB | | MOD4, MOD5 | | MOD6 | +-------------+ +-------------+These statements define a tree consisting of the permanently resident segment, called the root, and two overlays A and B which will be loaded following the end of MOD2. Overlay A itself consists of two overlay segments, AA, and AB. At execution time overlays A and B will both utilize the same memory locations; AA and BB will both utilize the same locations following the end of MOD3.
All the segments between the root and a given overlay segment are called a path.
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