On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:01:57 +0000, john gilmore wrote: >You will need several DXDs and a single CXD. > ... >The absence of this facility from C--Dennis Ritchie did not understand what >controlled storage was for--is the reason for all the ugliness of multiple >copies of writable static in C. > It is conventional in C to be able to have writable static storage statically initialized piecewise from multiple translation units. Such initialization is effective even before the relevant translation unit has been entered by a call. The "ugliness" arises when one attempts to accomplish this with pseudoregisters.
Cue Dave Rivers. It might be be better with LE facilities, but I understand LE has its drawbacks. BTW, are there 64-bit forms of CXD and DXD (regardless that 64-bit address space strains the notion of "register")? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
