How does M73 work in a sub?

Hello,

Writing a sub that can cut a part in a specified direction, I assumed that M73 will restore the former state - including rotation - upon subroutine exit. Since I could not get it right, I made a small test:
; test to see if the Rotation in the current coordinate system is saved with M73

o<rotating> sub
M73
G10 L2 P0 x10y10 R#1 ; rotate some degrees at current position
G90 X5 ; draw a line in relative mode
o<rotating> endsub

; Begin main
G91 G0
x10y10
o<rotating> call [10]
x10y10
o<rotating> call [20]
x10y10
o<rotating> call [30]
x10y10
o<rotating> call [40]
M2

Expecting a star of lines around 10,10
Running this seems that nor the rotation, nor the absolute mode is restored?
What goes wrong here? Using LinuxCNC 2.7.14

Thanks, Elco

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/gcode/m-code.html#mcode:m73

Seems to suggest that "modal state" includes only units, feed rate, absolute/relative and spindle speed.

You can manually save and restore the rotation using parameters
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/gcode/overview.html#gcode:parameters

Specifically it looks like #[5210+20*#5220] will return the current rotation in the current coordinate system.

Thanks for the reply. I'll add that to the code.

Elco