On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:20:09 -0700, Lloyd Fuller <leful...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >Some of it would be difficult unless you embed at least some assembler in the >Metal C stuff. For example, all date handling is removed from Metal C even the >capability of getting the system date although that is trivial in assembler. >There are other things that are missing from Metal C that probably do not need >to be. > >Another example is that if you want to be able to allocate lasting memory (i.e. >malloc) in Metal C, you have to embed some assembler; See the example in the >Metal C user's guide. The example works, but there is assembler there (the >load >of register 12). > Thanks, Lloyd. However, even with some assembler embedded in the Metal C source I would still consider that an exit "written in" Metal C. IBM even embeds assembler in PL/X on occasion, though they try to avoid it. And they still say the module is "written in" PL/X. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
