In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 10/25/2006
at 10:44 AM, "Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>REFR as an attribute, does this also imply that the code is
>self-relocating so that if the code is reloaded at a different place,
>it is still able to continue execution (of the task in flight)?
No. For Nucleus csects the MCH refreshed the code from SYS1.ASRLIB,
which held the contents after relocation. For code in transient areas
address constants were prohibited.
>But in DAT days where everything is V=V, just what is the purpose of
>REFR?
OS/VS1 still had transient areas. For SVS and MVS, REFR was a dead
letter.
--
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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