There you go thinking logically again Pat... On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Patrick O'Keefe <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:56:05 -0500, William H. Blair > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >... The problem for us > >was that we could not invoke the binder API as we assumed we > >would be able to, and the reason had to do with restrictions > >that originate in LE. For our application, that was a pretty > >clear-cut issue ... "You can't do that." > >... > > Warning: The following comment is based on total ignorance. > > It seems like better (but MUCH longer term) goal would be to have > the restrictions in LE relaxed ot removed. If IBM is going to use LE > functions as general purpose subroutines these functions work where > needed and expected. > > Since I don't know what functions and restrictions are involved, I may > be suggesting that fundimental laws of the universe be changed. > But since the whole excercise may be tilting at windmills, this is just > a probably just a bigger windmill. > ROTFLMAO! It would be easier to redefine the speed of light or the fine structure constant of the universe than get a do-over on LE. Without going into gory details, the LE runtime is written in such a way as to be completely unusable by privileged programs, or indeed even by programs that are ephemeral (like exits) and only briefly need a runtime to provide working storage and perhaps recovery. The existence of Metal C is tacit acknowledgement of that fact. -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
