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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Talman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Fw: IS IBM COBOL dead or just not being upgraded
> for z9? Re: z9 Hardware update
>
>
> If Cobol is truly alive, why doesn't the 3.4.1 compiler
> support the "new"
> relative addressing and immediate instructions? Do we have
> to wait for
> Cobol 4?
>
What good would doing that do? Just asking, but is:
LHI 1,27
so very much better than:
LH 1,H27
...
H27 DC H'27'
yes, it is better. But is it so much better that a customer would be
willing to pay for it right now? Rearchitecting the back end code
generator and validating it are likely to be complex projects. Perhaps
the C compiler can more easily be changed. I won't speculate as to why
that may (or may not) be true.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
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