In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 10/28/2006
   at 07:02 PM, Peter Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Assembler reentrancy appears to equate to "does not modify itself".

It's a heuristic for that; it flags some things that are not self
modification and it fails to flag some things that are. It's good for
a first cut, but no replacement for code reviews and testing.

>And the requirement on LPA modules is simply that they must be
>prepared to be restored to their "original state" at any time.

Which was how OS/360 defined REFR.
 
-- 
     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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