Actually, at the time the "standard" was "set", there was no such thing as APF.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:16:26 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote:>> > >> > >> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r12.ieae200/progref.htm > > > >Actually, it not that I think it is no good, I think it's a long time > coming. The problem is that I also know of at least one program (central to > our batch processing) that exploits this "feature" :) > > > Relink it. > > I'm biased. In our ISV development shop, we must test in the most > restrictive environments. REFRPROT=YES; USERKEYCSA=NO, etc. > If IBM would tell us about dirty GETMAIN, we'd use that, too. > > >So although I think it's "better" that reentrant marked modules actually > be reentrant and might have been inclined to enforce that had I had a say in > the mythical man month days, I don't get to just turn this on and say sorry > to my programmers and management. > > > Had the designers been thinking in those days, it would have been the > standard; never an option. Simply, a developer screwed up and put the > test of the AC bit in the wrong code path. It should never have been > sensitive to the status of the library. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this material in error and that any forwarding, copying, printing, distribution, use or disclosure of the material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this material in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the material. Emails are not secure and can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by email. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
