I agree that the typos are inexcusable. I'll try to do better in the future.
--jg On 1/6/12, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ~~ >> 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 > ~~~ >> displaying the values of the elements of such a struct. >> >> Why all the pother? > ~ >> >> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >> > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
