In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/27/2008
at 04:43 PM, "Ward, Mike S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I was looking at the sample code(ezacicas) in sezainst listed below for
>cics sockets programming. The takesocket is supposed to return the socket
>number in retcode+2 a halfword. If that's the case and socket number 1
>was returned in retcode+2 wouldn't the error check after the call be
>incorrect?
That would depend on what's in bytes 0-1 of RETCODE; if it's always either
a positive success code or a negative error code then the sample code is
sloppy[1] but correct.
[1] Using three instructions where two would do, plus an extraneous
fetch of a constant zero.
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