In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/2006
at 09:33 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>And, I'm astonished at your astonishment!
But Peter is right.
>The technique of testing for the presence of control block fields at
> assembly time e.g., AIF (NOT D'CVTHxxxx) to skip around
>release-dependent code for source-maintained products has been a
>standard practice for _decades_
The practice of introducing symbols that will be needed in a future
release has also been a standard practice for decades.
>Assembler H (IEV90)!
The early provision of symbols goes back to Assembler (F).
>If this pervasive and well-established technique becomes unreliable,
It can't *become* unreliable because it was *ALWAYS* unreliable.
BTDTGTS.
--
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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