What's with the typos, John? That's not like you.
On 1/6/2012 7:55 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
This caption, at least when it is interpreted in accordance with the
semantics of rteceived standard English, would ordinarily provoke a
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simple response.
The content of 'an address that point to a struct', i.e., a pointer,
is the value of that pointer. zArchitecture Pointer values are then
traditionally and appropriately externalized as strings of eight or 16
hexadecimal digits; and this rersponse exhausts the topic.
The question how to externalize the values contained in 'a struct' is
a different one. To make sense of such a question one must specify a
template/mapping mechanism, an HLASM DSECT or DSECTs, a C struct, a
PL/I structure, whatever. Storage itself is susceptible of multiple
interpetations. A doubleword aligned sequence of eight bytes may be
an [AD] address, a double-precision BFP|DFP|HFP value, etc., etc.
Since the [barbarous] term 'struct' is used here, reference to a C or
C-like entity is presumably intended, and there are cxonventions for
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displaying the values of the elements of such a struct.
Why all the pother?
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John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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