"Craddock, Chris" wrote: (after someone else wrote) >> And a corollary would be "why DID IBM make it so > darned hard to write reentrant assembler code?"
> Umm... because they really weren't thinking about the problem. Back in > the day things were considerably simpler and there was really no need > for a more elaborate run time environment, or so they thought. It couldn't have been much longer. It was needed for PL/I, which must have been started pretty early in the OS/360 design. But Fortran G and H generate ordinary non-reentrerable code, with static data in the same CSECT. The Fortran G and H library even uses self modifying code! -- glen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
