In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
05/12/2005
at 10:19 PM, "Arthur T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> At first, I agreed with this, for two reasons
>(details below):
>1. It obviates the buffer overflow problem.
How? If the data from the DD are moved into the first parameter with a
halfword length, then the effect is the same as simply allowing a
longer PARM. Anything else and existing programs won't be able to
handle the new keyword.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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