I might argue that MVS is sui generis, something of a special case. Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 10:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM Much of MVS is written in a compiled language (PL/X and its predecessors), and I have spent the past 38 years making a living by debugging it using dumps. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on 02/01/2018 09:03:37 AM: > From: Charles Mills <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 02/02/2018 01:00 AM > Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM Sent by: IBM Mainframe > Assembler List <[email protected]> > > > The last time I used a dump to find bugs in a compiled program was > about 35 years ago. > > Right! I think if you are using a classic "core dump" to find logic > errors in a compiled language program then you are doing something wrong. > > To find an error in some big table or something, sure, but then the > arrangement of the compiled machine instructions should not matter.
