The Establish a Condition Handler routine moves the address of a condition handling routine (which can be a user-written or a library routine) to longword 0 of the stack frame of the caller of LIB$ESTABLISH. This routine is not available to native OpenVMS Alpha and I64 programs but is recognized and handled appropriately by most VSI high-level language compilers. Format LIB$ESTABLISH new-handler
1 – Returns
OpenVMS usage:routine type: procedure value access: write only mechanism: by reference Previous contents of SF$A_HANDLER (longword 0) of the caller's stack frame; zero if no handler existed.
2 – Argument
new-handler OpenVMS usage:procedure type: procedure value access: read only mechanism: by value Routine to be set up as the condition handler. The new-handler argument is the address of the procedure value to this routine.